One of the many advantages of using a TMG firewall is its easy integration with your System Center Operations Manager infrastructure. However, in order to get that integration, you need the management pack.

This MP monitors Forefront TMG and includes monitors and rules to track the deployed topology & features, performance, availability, and reliability of Forefront TMG components. With detailed alert information, you can quickly identify and troubleshoot Forefront TMG issues, minimizing time-to-resolution when problems occur.

You can collect and analyze performance trends and metrics, and obtain performance information that allows you to manage bottlenecks, identify capacity requirements, and proactively manage your Forefront TMG deployment to resolve issues before problems occur.

The Management Pack for Forefront TMG provides monitoring for network protection, caching and access scenarios for Forefront TMG. Features included:

• Topology and feature deployment
• Events indicating service outages
• Alerts indicating configuration issues and connected data source changes
• Verification that all dependant services are running
• Configuration storage synchronization

Head on over here to get your TMG SCOM MP files and information:

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?Fa...ang=en

Deb

DEBRA LITTLEJOHN SHINDER
MVP (Enterprise Security)
“MS SECURITY”
dshinder@isaserver.org