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The Windows Server Internet Information Services 7 Management Pack for System Center Operations Manager 2007 has a new release. Main added feature is support for monitoring IIS on Windows 2008 SP2 and Windows 2008 R2. It can be downloaded from the MS download site and will be available through the online catalog.

Version: 6.0.7600.0
Date Published: 2/8/2010

From the download description:

Overview
This management pack provides an early warning to administrators on issues that could affect services so that administrators can investigate and take corrective action, if necessary. The management pack helps to simplify the administrative environment by providing a single console for the administrator to perform a number of useful management tasks. To help troubleshoot common issues, the management pack contains helpful product knowledge and a way to extend this knowledge through adding your own company or organization knowledge related to an issue.

Note: For System Center Operations Manager 2007 SP1 environment, hotfix K971541 or later is required in order to manage IIS 7 by using this management pack.

Feature Summary:
The IIS MP provides monitoring of the following objects:

Web Sites
Application Pools
FTP Servers
NNTP Servers
SMTP Servers

As always be sure to read the documentation and as stated above if you are running SCOM SP1 do not forget the hotfix mentioned!

Bob Cornelissen