The server infrastructure is the foundation upon which the business processes that drive an organization’s success are based. IT decision makers are asked to build this foundation while being under constant pressure to control costs, deliver infrastructure security, and ensure compliance. At the same time there is an ever present need to remain agile so as to support changing business requirements.
Microsoft Gold Certified Partner The Henson Group, Inc., provides a practice dedicated to Microsoft Systems Management technologies to help control costs, improve business agility, remain secure and in compliance, and ultimately transition to a truly dynamic infrastructure.
This practice, staffed by Microsoft Certified consultants with extensive field experience (incl. many former Microsoft employees) assists in planning to implement the next line of server products from Microsoft, yet with the directive of achieving the fastest, least disruptive way to deploy this technology across the organization.
The primary focus of this practice is Microsoft® System Center, a family of leading IT management solutions that helps IT departments proactively plan, deploy, manage, and optimize an IT environment, providing complete IT solutions for servers, desktops, and both physical and virtual devices.
The Henson Group’s Systems Management Practice also offers expertise focused on Microsoft Business Desktop Deploy technologies.
WHAT WE CAN DO FOR YOU: SYSTEMS CENTER OPERATIONS MANAGER
Deployment Architecture: THG creates server, agent, and rule deployment strategies, incl. interoperability with existing monitoring tools. THG will tune MOM management packs to optimize thresholds, alerts, and custom rules to capture specific events, utilizing Best Practices for devising notification strategies and planning workflow procedures. THG offers experience with firewalls, localization, security partitions, multi-homed agents, and alert forwarding.
Monitoring Customization: Enhancing existing MOM Management Packs for thresholds, alerts, and custom rules to capture specific events, proposing Best Practices for devising notification strategies and planning escalation procedures.
Reporting Server and Customization: THG builds MOM data warehouses to track long-term trends in server environment, leveraging SQL Reporting Services.
Custom Scripts: THG assists in writing VBscript/WMI scripts to take actions on events without administrative intervention, allowing systems to fix themselves.
Operations and Use: THG provides guidance for database grooming and mainte-nance, backup/recovery procedures, alert-notification escalation and resolution.
Third-Party Add-Ons: THG recommends additional MOM 2005 add-ons that an enterprise may need, such as .NET application monitoring.