Hi Experts, We have planned for MOM tp SCOM Migration and at the high level i have planned something as below, migration plan, * We got RMS, primary and secondary management server, i plan to make all agent to report to primary management server so that there will be two backup for the agent to failover. * customized rules/event in MOM will be manually configured instead of converting the MP. * Configuring services monitoring with automatic recovery please provide your inputs Regards, Pratap

I like that you are not planning on converting your MOM monitoring - the converter tool is a dead end. The general guidance I give to customers when they want to start this kind of a plan, is stand up OM, get your agents pushed out, and your environment healthy. Then add the operating system MP, and start learning how to tune the management packs in the MP marketplace. Once you get that one done, add DNS, DHCP, and AD, and again, tune these. If you then add SQL you have the basics covered and you never touched your MOM rules. Then consider important workloads, and again, start with the available MP's from the marketplace, and don't be biased towards only free packs. There are some great packs out there from the third parties that are worth their weight in gold. Speaking of gold, do look and seriously consider the MP studio suite from silect. This product makes the MP management, versioning, and tuning process so easy that you will save hundreds of hours if you go this approach. It's a no-brainer from a cost-benefit perspective. Similarly, Viacode.com has an interesting product that is in beta for helping with tuning. Speaking of Viacode, do start studying the MPwiki - this lets you look at the details of the MSFT mps in easily and quickly, and you will learn more than you can with just the MP guides that you can download. Always download the guides. never import a management pack you haven't learned how to configure or tune. Those are good rules of thumb. Once you have your workloads covered from the packs you can get, only then should you consider whether there is anything to move over from MOM. The likely area of value is custom applications you are monitoring, your URL monitors (MOM was not really good at that anyhow), etc. The majority of what you had based on a couple of dozen closely guided migrations I've watched, is throw-away/duplication once you have the marketplace packs working well.Microsoft Corporation