SMS HealthMon

• Has anyone used HealthMon to send alerts?
• "The installation was unable to compile the MOF file" error when installing HealthMon from SP2 CD [2/8/02]
• What plans does Microsoft have for HealthMon?

Has anyone used HealthMon to send alerts?

We are running HealthMon on all our servers at the moment. We use it in conjunction with the Event to trap translator to send traps to our Openview box which works quite well. We created a package that did an unattended install of the HealthMon agent with a MOF file that contains our preferred thresholds.

We also ran 'Eventcmt.exe' to set the Event to trap translator to forward a trap when an important threshold was passed.
 

"The installation was unable to compile the MOF file" error when installing HealthMon from SP2 CD

Contributed By: Cliff Hobbs [MVP SMS]
If you're seeing the "The installation was unable to compile the MOF file" error when trying to install the HealthMon Agent from the SP2 CD, here's the fix ...  [Go to article]
 

What plans does Microsoft have for HealthMon?

http://www.microsoft.com/BACKOFFICESERVER/techinfo/productdoc/documentation.asp

and click on the "Features Overview" (about half-way down).