BlackBerry Enterprise Server Monitoring - Ancoris Way

The BlackBerry Enterprise Server Monitoring Solution from Ancoris provides centralized management of your distributed BlackBerry environment. In addition to optimizing your performance and ensuring availability through automated event detection and correction, this solution runs prepackaged reports showing user-to-server associations and manages end-to-end connectivity

For more information - click on link below -
http://www.ancoris.com/s/mon/blackberry.shtml

SCOM 2007 Blogs

Jonathan Hambrook Blog
http://opsmgr.wordpress.com/

Ian Blyth Blog - SCOM 2007 Mini videos -
http://ianblythmanagement.wordpress.com/2007/01/26/scom-2007-mini-videos/

Timothy McFadden Blog
http://scom2k7.blogspot.com/

Cameron Fullers Blog
http://cameronfuller.spaces.live.com/

Clive Eastwood Blog
http://blogs.technet.com/cliveeastwood/

Pete's Management Blog
http://it-jedi.net/

Book on SCOM 2007

Mastering System Center Operations Manager 2007

not released yet -
http://www.amazon.com/Mastering-System-Center-Operations-Manager/dp/0470119306

Hardware Sentry monitors the health of your servers hardware within BMC Software® PATROL®. It's a KM for PATROL: it needs to be installed on each managed server with a PATROL Agent, and then you can check the hardware components of your servers from any PATROL Console. The operators will be alerted as soon as a hardware failure is detected somewhere in your IT infrastructure. It's greater and easier than any other hardware monitoring solution available on the market: with the same module, you can monitor the hardware of almost any server. Great server coverage and easy integration!

For a list of what servers does hadware sentry KM monitors please click on the link below.
http://www.sentrysoftware.net/products/hardwareSentry.asp

Monitoring hardware alerts with VMware ESX

With VMware ESX you can install the IBM Director according to the compatibility matrix (add link).The inband monitored events comprise everything that is surfaced by the service processor (either the Baseboard Management Controller through the openIPMI layer, or the Remote Supervisor Adapter through its device driver). These events can also be monitored out of band.

The service processor however is not able to monitor devices such as ethernet or fibre channel adapters. These objects are owned by the vmkernel, and IBM Director 5.20 (the most current version at the time of writing) only monitors the adapters seen by the Service Console.In a real life scenario, most of the times ethernet and fibre channel cards are redundant, i.e. teams of adapters are created so that if one card or path fails, the remaining adapter or path fails over without any service disruption. Even in such a high availability scenario, you want to receive a notification should a failover occur in order to take the appropriate actions.

IBM Director agent is not able to surface these events. What you can do though is to create a script that queries the vmkernel to see if any adapter is dead and creates an IBM Director event that is sent to the IBM Director Server. As the script polls the vmkernel, you will need to execute it with the frequency that you believe most appropriate to your environment, trading off the additional workload such a script is putting on your servers and the maximum time allowed between the failure (not failover!) and the notification of such a failure.

for Step by step guide click the following link below
http://www-941.haw.ibm.com/collaboration/ibmwiki/display/redwiki/Monitoring+hardware+alerts+with+VMware+ESX

Did You Know

Sybase RSM can be used as a monitoring tool to monitor Health of the database. The state Change action can trigger scripts. using this feature it is easy to integrate to third-party monitoring tools.