microsoft management console

Microsoft Forefront Server Security Management Console description
Allows administrators to easily manage Forefront Security for Exchange Server, Forefront Security for SharePoint Forefront Server Security Management Console allows administrators to easily manage Forefront Security for Exchange Server, Forefront Security for SharePoint and Microsoft Antigen, providing a web-based console to centralize configuration and operation, automate the download and distribution of signature and scan engine updates, and generate comprehensive reports.

Forefront Server Security Management Console also allows administrators to rapidly respond to outbreaks and update protection across enterprise deployments, improving organizational agility in responding to new threats.

Through integration with Windows Server 2003 and Microsoft SQL Server, Forefront Server Security Management Console helps maintain reliability and performance of messaging and collaboration protection.

Requirements:

· 512 MB of available memory
· 64 MB of available disk space on an NTFS formatted drive for Forefront Server Security Management Console
· 186 MB of available disk space on an NTFS formatted drive for prerequisites listed below.
· IIS 6.0 or higher (with ASP.NET 2.0 enabled)
· SQL Server 2000 Standard Edition (SP3a recommended), SQL Server 2005 Standard Edition(or above), or SQL Server 2005 Express Edition - Forefront Server Security Management Console supports SQL Server 2005 Express Edition which will be installed when selecting the "Express Install" option.
· The following prerequisites are included in the trial download and installed automatically if they are not already present
· .net Runtime v.2.0
· MSMQ Triggers
· MSXML 6.0 SP1

Enomalism Virtualized Management Console project is a open source web-based systems administrator management tool for XEN hypervisor. Servers with hundreds of multiple isolated virtualized systems can be managed like a standalone server.

Enomalism also includes a virtual server creation wizard and templates to facilitate virtualized server configuration, application deployment and centralized software patch management.

The Enomalism application provides a single interface for managing multiple virtualized servers across assorted platforms. The same administrator can monitor and administer both Linux and Windows servers using the same interface without having to learn extensive OS skills.

Enomalism eases cross-server and large server farm management. Applications can be deployed and updated on many servers simultaneously. The application console provides a centralized look at server information and software versions across all server resources, facilitating versioning and patch management.

Here are some key features of "Enomalism Virtualized Management Console":

Enomalism Virtualized Control Center Console
· The Enomalism Control Center is a web-based tool for system administrators to perform many XEN server management tasks from any computer with appropriate Internet or network access.
· Dynamic Real-time Partitioning
· Partition a physical server into 100s of virtualized servers, each with full dedicated server functionality

Resource Management
· Assign and control system resource parameters and re-allocate resources in real-time via a rich web based interface

Virtualization
· Move virtual servers and its application(s) between physical servers transparently with near-zero downtime

Application Repository (package management system)
· Enomalism will feature a package management system & application repository to automate the process of installing, upgrading, configuring, and removing software packages from the system(s).

Open Source License
· Enomalism is Open Source, and is released under an LGPL (GNU Lesser General Public License)

The Microsoft Management Pack Notifier Management Pack enables the generation of Informational alerts as updated management pack are released.

Once installed this Management Pack will periodically contact Microsoft to determine if updates to previously installed management packs are available for download. When an update is detected an Informational alert will be generated indicating which management pack(s) and version(s) are available.

Microsoft Windows Key Management Service (KMS) is a new Windows service used in volume-licensed environments to activate machines running Windows Vista or later versions.

Microsoft Windows Key Management Service Management Pack will monitor and report the health of KSM hosts within the enterprise environment.

The Microsoft Windows Key Management Service rule group enables system administrators to monitor the health of all computers on which the Key Management Service is enabled. Rules create alerts for conditions that could indicate KMS outages or impending problems.

In addition, KMS activity data logged in the Windows event log are collected to support forensic and statistical reporting for KMS client activations. Coupled with other sources of data, such as System Center Operations Manager, IT pros can gain a complete view of all the volume-licensed computers in their environment.

Here are some key features of "Microsoft Windows Key Management Service":

Alerts are generated for the following conditions:
· KMS initialization failures
· DNS SRV publishing failures
· The KMS machine count is below a specified low-water mark
· No KMS activity has occurred for designated periods
Reporting:
· A data collection rule is provided that sends all client requests logged by KMS to the MOM database for subsequent analysis.
· A sample set of SQL reports is provided that can be used as a basis for extensive reporting on client activations.

Microsoft Management Model Designer description
The Microsoft Management Model Designer (MMD) application was created to be a tool for developing management models The Microsoft Management Model Designer (MMD) application was created to be a tool for developing management models. Management models provide a way to represent all of the areas of manageability for applications and systems services.

You can use the MMD to:

· Build a management framework by defining the managed entities that make up your applications or system services and define how these they relate to each other.
· Import existing instrumentation, such as events and performance counters, into your model.
· Author human-readable knowledge associated with each managed entity, such as event and performance counter descriptions and troubleshooting content.
· Import and export existing MOM 2005 management pack knowledge
· Validate your management model schema.

A health model defines various health states of a system and how that system moves in and out of those health states. It provides a single source for documenting troubleshooting knowledge for an application or service.

A health model describes the following:
· Physical or logical parts of an application or service that an IT Professional (IT Pro) needs to configure, monitor, and report on
· A set of health states the application or service can get into and why
· How to detect and diagnose problems
· How to solve problems

The ultimate goal of creating a health model is to enable the IT Pro to more easily and efficiently maintain systems in a distributed environment. You use the Microsoft Management Model Designer (MMD) to create your health model.

Creating a health model with the Management Model Designer (MMD) includes:
· Building an application structure from predefined components (base classes as defined in the Service Modeling Language Platform) and the relationships between them.
· Building a hierarchy of the logical services and objects the application exposes in a way that is most useful for IT professionals.
· Identifying the functional Aspects for each Managed Entity that are of interest for monitoring.
· Identifying all of the Health States and levels of severity an Aspect can be in.
· Identifying the verification steps that need to be taken to confirm whether an Aspect is in a given Health State.
· Providing the instrumentation that enables the detection of each Health State.
· Identifying the diagnostic steps needed to determine the root cause of the degraded Health State of an Aspect.
· Identifying the recovery steps that need to be taken to resolve a problem and return an Aspect and its parent Managed Entity to full health.
You use the Management Model Designer (MMD) tool to:
· Build a management framework by defining the managed entities that make up your application or system service and define how the entities relate to each other.
· Import existing instrumentation, such as events and performance counters, into your model.
· Enter descriptions and procedures related to Managed Entities for the IT Pro to use for troubleshooting.
· Import and export Operations Manager management pack knowledge.
· Validate your management model.

The Managed Entity framework you create plus the descriptions and procedures you write for each component including Managed Entities, Aspects, Verifiers and Resolvers, become the content for web-based troubleshooting information IT Pros can access through TechNet, as well as output for generating Operations Manager management packs.

Requirements:

· .NET CLR 2.0 and Office Interop Assemblies

Microsoft Systems Management Server 2003 Toolkit tools work with SMS 2003 and are available only in English-language versions. They assist with deploying and troubleshooting SMS 2003.

Microsoft Security Bulletin MS00-012 announces the availability of a patch that eliminates a vulnerability in Microsoft Systems Management Server (SMS). If the Remote Control feature of SMS has been installed and enabled, thevulnerability could allow a workstation user to take virtually any desired action on the machine. This is a privilege elevation vulnerability. A malicious user who exploited this vulnerability would be able to take virtually any desired actionon a machine that he or she could interactively log onto. For instance, he or she could add, delete or modify files, create or delete local users, or install additional software on the machine. The only SMS feature affected by this vulnerability is the Remote Control feature. Sites that have not enabled the Remote Control Feature of SMS are not affected by this vulnerability.

Trap Console is an SNMP trap management application which allows users to visualize SNMP traps in a human-readable form. User can receive pre-assigned notifications, launch 3rd party applications in response to specific SNMP traps, forward, discard and generate SNMP traps, all that from within a simple easy-to-use Web browser interface.Due to its trap forwarding capability, Trap Console is an ideal tool for the first-stage filtering of the trap traffic. Trap Console can manage SNMP traps at remote sites, forwarding only the important traps to the high-level management console application, possibly minimizing the traffic over slower lines.Trap Console can also communicate with other applications through its generic telnet connector module. The user-defined script controls the socket communication. Access to all properties and values of the respective SNMP trap are available with Trap Console macros.Trap Console was designed with great care to guarantee its safe operation over long periods of time. A user can decide about how many resources to allocate for Trap Console. Trap Console makes sure it wont eat up resources of the system it is running on even during temporary trap storms.

VNCScan Console is the original management console and scanner for VNC enabled computers. Version 3.2.0 offers a large amount of features and flexibility not found in previous versions or any other scanner that I can find. For details about the features of VNCScan, please visit our web site.

OPENXTRA Console is a gadget quickly and easily view the readings from the Sensatronics range of temperature and environmental monitoring equipment.

You can download OPENXTRA Console for free. You will need a Sensatronics environmental monitor to make use of OPENXTRA Console. You can get an idea for how things will work by trying em1.sensatronics.com.