This is good to know.  Thank you.

Dot

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Dan Bartley [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> Sent: Friday, April 12, 2002 6:26 PM
> To:   Exchange Discussions
> Subject:      RE: MOM - Microsoft Operations Manager
> 
> 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
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> 
> 
> -----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
> > To: Exchange Discussions
> > Subject:    RE: MOM - Microsoft Operations Manager
> > 
> > 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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