Depends on whether you have the Application Pack. Just MOM alone will do
nothing for you with Ex5.5. It will monitor the Win2k OS out of the box.
The agent is well behaved in 99% of the environments. 

I haven't tried against Ex5.5, but it can have some issues with certain
report scripts on E2k with App Pack. It does not bring the box down in
one test arena, it just does not function consistently with the mailbox
needed for Exchange reporting functions.

I regularly have to restart the agent service to get a script to
complete on one test arena. In another, it just won't work with the
mailbox most of the time, no matter what I do. This is with the App
Pack. It works fine on the OS, SQL, etc.

In one of the test arenas, the WMI service regularly runs away with the
CPU, due directly to the failure of the Exchange scripts. In the other
one, it does not, it just fails to complete the scripts without
restarting the agent.

The biggest thing about MOM is to be sure you assign computer groups to
the rule sets, or you'll get nothing, and be very careful what you
decide to pull from the logs and scripts. The database will get very
large, very quickly.

Dan Bartley, MCSE+Internet
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-----Original Message-----
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] 
Sent: Friday, April 12, 2002 11:05
To: Exchange Discussions
Subject: RE: MOM - Microsoft Operations Manager

I'm concerned with the agent and the overhead.

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Chris Scharff [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> Sent: Friday, April 12, 2002 9:46 AM
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> Subject:      RE: MOM - Microsoft Operations Manager
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> The agent or the application and databases and $tonofotheroverhead?
> 
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] 
> > Sent: Friday, April 12, 2002 9:40 AM
> > To: Exchange Discussions
> > Subject: MOM - Microsoft Operations Manager
> > 
> > 
> > Has anyone installed MOM on their Exchange server?  I have 
> > Exchange 5.5 sp4 running on a Windows 2000 server sp2.  I am 
> > also running Trend Micro virus scan and content filter 3.52 
> > and 3.11 respectively on it.  I have no issues with the 
> > server or Exchange but I'm being asked to think about 
> > installing Microsoft Operations Manager on it.  My contention 
> > is that I don't know enough about MOM to know the impact it 
> > may have on Exchange.  Anyone have any thoughts on this?
> > 
> > Thanks,
> > 
> > Dot Harris
> > William Blair & Company
> > 
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