Hi All, I manager about 10 Windows server inculde 2003, 2008 & terminal server. Also about 200 client computers, most of computers are Dell computers, Windows XP. For the servers, I checked Event log every day for each servers. I want know if there is good way to monitor these servers. How I could know if the server has any issue as soon as possible? Is there any way which can inform me at once when the server has a problem? In the large company how their administrator do their job? For the client computers, is there any way which I can use to monitor these client computers? Currently, I didn't monitor them, I just waiting for user to tell me which computer has a problem. Thanks in advance,

Hi, You can use SCOM for monitor. Please Use SCOM forum. http://social.technet.microsoft.com/Forums/en-US/operationsmanagergeneral/threads Thanks.

I use PRTG for monitoring my servers and network, which is great tool and fairly cheap. It's easy to set up and you can alter the monitoring easily to suit your company needs. Not sure about monitoring PCs as I always avoid this. What would you want to monitor on a PC, and why not wait for the user to say it has a hardware fault and then swap it out? Maybe monitoring for disk storage on PCs, at a push, but we store everything on our servers, which disk storage is monitored on. Plus what about when the PCs are turned off, you could be getting a lot of alerts to say hardware has failed when in fact the PC is just not switched on. You should look at wsus for your servers and PCs to check if they are missing any MS patches nd it can help deploy them as well. Hope that helps

Hi, Please check whether the following link helps: http://social.technet.microsoft.com/Forums/en-US/winservergen/thread/534f4f56-ea8f-4ab6-9221-bc105b1c4844 Thanks. Nina This posting is provided "AS IS" with no warranties, and confers no rights.

There are lot of monitoring softwares for the scneario you posted above. If you want to ahead with Microsoft then you have got SCOM and MOM 2005 http://www.microsoft.com/systemcenter/en/us/operations-manager.aspx http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/systemcenter/om/bb498244 if you would like to go with the third party tools then you may look forwar with softwares like http://www.manageengine.com/products/ad-manager/windows-active-directory-reports.html http://www.virmansec.com/blogs/skhairuddin

Hi All, Thank you so much for your information.

Hi All, I manager about 10 Windows server inculde 2003, 2008 & terminal server. Also about 200 client computers, most of computers are Dell computers, Windows XP. For the servers, I checked Event log every day for each servers. I want know if there is good way to monitor these servers. How I could know if the server has any issue as soon as possible? Is there any way which can inform me at once when the server has a problem? In the large company how their administrator do their job? For the client computers, is there any way which I can use to monitor these client computers? Currently, I didn't monitor them, I just waiting for user to tell me which computer has a problem. Thanks in advance, If you're on a budget, check out SpiceWorks. It's free.