System Center Management Pack (6.0.7296.0) for Windows Server Now Available for Download

Microsoft has released a version 6.0.7296.0 of System Center Management Pack for Windows Server. This Management Pack provides the fundamental monitoring basics for computers running the Windows Server 2003, 2003 R2, 2008, 2008 R2 and 2012 Operating System.

What's new in version 6.0.7296.0
Changes in version 6.0.7296.0:

• In 2003, 2008, 2008R2 platforms, the mount point discovery script was also discovering logical disks as mount points which appeared to many as duplicates. These mount points for logical disks were removed to prevent confusion.
• In 2012, 2012R2 platforms, mount point discovery was causing rediscovery of logical disks and this rediscovery resulted in rules being run again. This was fixed.
• In all platforms, duplicate performance rules were shown for mount points and logical disks. This has been fixed.

Download System Center Management Pack for Windows Server Operating System
You can find the Management Pack for Windows Server Operating System on the Microsoft Download Center.

Overview
The System Center Management Pack for Windows Server Operating System consists of the following management packs: Microsoft Windows Server Library, Microsoft Windows Server 2012 Discovery, Microsoft Windows Server 2012 Monitoring, Windows Server 2008 Discovery, Windows Server 2008 Monitoring, Microsoft Server 2008 R2 Best Practice Analyzer Monitoring, Windows Server Cluster Shared Volume Monitoring, Windows Server Operating System Reports, Windows Server 2003. The Microsoft Windows Server management packs monitor the performance, health, and availability of Windows Server 2008 and Windows Server 2003.

By detecting, alerting on, and automatically responding to critical events and performance indicators, management packs reduce resolution times for issues and increase the overall availability and performance of your Windows Server 2012 R2, Windows Server 2012, Windows Server 2008 R2, Windows Server 2008, and Windows Server 2003 operating systems, thereby helping to reduce the total cost of ownership.

Feature Summary
This management pack provides the following functionality:

Availability

• Key Operating System Services: Required services are checked for status (for example, running, not running, or paused)
• Storage: Logical hard drives are checked for availability, sufficient free space, and integrity of the NTFS partition.
• Network: Network adapters are checked for connection health, name and IP address conflicts.

Performance

• Processor: System processor(s) performance is checked system-wide. Processors can optionally be monitored on a per processor basis.
• Memory: Memory consisting of physical memory and virtual memory (also known as page files) is monitored using the following performance indicators:
  
  • Available memory (in MB).
  • Pages per second.
  • Page file percent usage.
• Disks and Partitions: Logical disks/partitions and physical disks are monitored, and performance data is collected for average disk seconds per read, disk seconds per write, and disk seconds per transfer. Monitoring is also provided for fragmentation of logical disks. Depending on which version of the operating system is being monitored, either logical or physical monitoring is enabled by default. Refer to the MP guide for more detail.
• Network Adapter: Network adapters are monitored for the number of bytes received per second, the number of bytes sent per second, and the total bytes per second. In addition, the health state of the network adapter is evaluated and is set to Healthy if connected and Critical if disconnected.

Reference
System Center Management Pack for Windows Server Operating System