>I believe MOM grew out of the monitoring product that NetIQ acquired from Mission Critical Software called OnePoint.
It's early roots were in Mission Critical's SeNTry (before they called it OnePoint) which was a pretty cool idea in it's day. SeNTry had add-ins for products like Exchange, IIS, CIM etc that wrapped some intelligence around mining the event log entries said apps generated and taking action on them. In those days NetIQ's AppManager did little to nothing with event logs so it was kind of a logical progression the way it all morphed together eventually. -----Original Message----- From: Darren Mar-Elia [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, September 22, 2003 9:38 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: [ActiveDir] OT: Microsoft MOM MOM was purchased by MS from NetIQ--correct. I believe MOM grew out of the monitoring product that NetIQ acquired from Mission Critical Software called OnePoint. You still see the OnePoint name littered throughout the MOM setup and install. Kinda takes me back to SMS 1.0, when the install and product had references to "Hermes", the product that begat SMS. And yes, it was pretty scary running SMS 1.0... -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of William Lefkovics Sent: Monday, September 22, 2003 7:00 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [ActiveDir] OT: Microsoft MOM It does need a little mothering, yes, and it is probably overkill for a smaller firm. Isn't MOM an offspring of NetIQ? And I work with the Exchange Management Pack mostly. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Rick Kingslan" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Monday, September 22, 2003 6:39 PM Subject: RE: [ActiveDir] OT: Microsoft MOM > MOM has lots of promise - but it's like any other tool of this type. > It takes much care, quite a bit of skill, and a lot of commitment. We > have one > person who is all but dedicated to running MOM. > > As to the pieces of MOM that come in the AD Management Pack - well, they're > not bad. But - they aren't great either. There are a lot of holes, > but as > mentioned - it takes tuning. I suspect the holes are the pieces of > our installation that need to be tuned to collect the right data to > fill in. Given enough data, MOM can be a great tool. I suspect, > given this depth and breadth of a tool - you're going to need 12 - 18 > mos. Of historical data > built up before it becomes a PREDICTIVE tool - and not just a > monitoring station. > > If all you want is monitoring, Dell Open Manage or HP/Compaq Insight Manager > is going to do that for you - and the cost is, well, let's just say a > lot less. :o) > > MOM is a great tool. It just needs LOTS of care and feeding. > > Rick Kingslan MCSE, MCSA, MCT > Microsoft MVP - Active Directory > Associate Expert > Expert Zone - www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/expertzone > > > This message may contain privileged or confidential information. If > > you are > not the intended recipient of this message, you may not make any use > of, or > rely in any way on, this information, and you should destroy this > message and notify the sender by reply email. Any opinions or advice > contained in this email are subject to the terms and conditions in any > applicable client > engagement letter or service agreement. > > .org/ > List info : http://www.activedir.org/mail_list.htm List FAQ : http://www.activedir.org/list_faq.htm List archive: http://www.mail-archive.com/activedir%40mail.activedir.org/ List info : http://www.activedir.org/mail_list.htm List FAQ : http://www.activedir.org/list_faq.htm List archive: http://www.mail-archive.com/activedir%40mail.activedir.org/ List info : http://www.activedir.org/mail_list.htm List FAQ : http://www.activedir.org/list_faq.htm List archive: http://www.mail-archive.com/activedir%40mail.activedir.org/
