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		<title>Metrex APC Monitoring Management Pack</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The Metrex APC Monitoring Management Pack extends the System Center Operations Manager 2007 to carry out both proactive and reactive monitoring for the following UPSs by American Power Conversion Corp.
The management pack enables the monitoring of UPS’s components like battery, environmental monitoring card etc. and allows controlling UPS’s parameters such as input voltage, current frequency, [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.vpn.ru/en/?p=133</link>
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		<title>Metrex Cisco Management Pack</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The Metrex Cisco Management Pack extends the System Center Operations Manager 2007 to carry out both proactive and reactive monitoring for the following network equipment by Cisco Systems:

Switches
Routers
Firewalls
Wireless Access Points

The management pack enables the monitoring of both hardware  components such as RAM, CPUs, Power Supplies as well as logical components such as processes and IPSLA [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.vpn.ru/en/?p=106</link>
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		<title>The prices for SCOM 2007 Management Packs from Metrex Engineering company.</title>
		<description><![CDATA[We have a good news for all the people who want to purchase our Management Packs. We offer 30% discount for our products until the 1st of January 2010. At this time our prices are:



Device Type
Price, $.


Cisco Switch
70


Cisco Router
210


Cisco Firewall
175


APC UPS
105




Annual Management Packs&#8217; supporting contract costs 15% of total Management Packs&#8217; purchase sum. This contract [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.vpn.ru/en/?p=88</link>
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		<title>Installing the Metrex Management Packs in the Windows 2003 x64 environments</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Customers that attempted to install the Metrex Cisco Management Pack or the Metrex APC Management Pack under Windows 2003 x64 faced a an unexpected requirement from the installer:


In addition to the standard requirements for “SNMP Service”, “SNMP WMI provider” and  Powershell v1.0 the installer requires the hotfix 942589. This patch is responsible for fixing the [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.vpn.ru/en/?p=77</link>
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		<title>FAQ on management packs for  SCOM 2007  by Metrex.</title>
		<description><![CDATA[A lot of questions are became quite frequent recently so I’ve decided to post answers to some:




Q:
What SCOM 2007 management packs are available?


A:
As of today 5 management packs are made available by Metrex:

Cisco switches
Cisco routers
Cisco firewalls
Cisco wireless access points
Uninterruptable Power Supplies by APC

Management packs for all-in-one devices and non-APC UPSes are in the works but [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.vpn.ru/en/?p=72</link>
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		<title>Virtual Private Networks monitoring</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Why VPN monitoring? Let’s imagine a company that have a network of branch offices in most of the largest cities of the country. The offices are interconnected using both public networks (i.e. Internet) and dedicated operator networks (i.e. MPLS). In order to provide secure communications, on top of both types of links the company runs [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.vpn.ru/en/?p=57</link>
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		<title>Monitoring APC equipment with Microsoft SCOM 2007</title>
		<description><![CDATA[This article describes our management pack for System Center Operations Manager 2007 (SCOM) which provides monitoring of the APC UPS devices.
Why did we start writing this management pack? The power supply monitoring task becomes more urgent when you have to maintain distributed server rooms. In such environment it is hard to expect that monitoring a [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.vpn.ru/en/?p=21</link>
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		<title>Monitoring CISCO equipment with Microsoft SCOM 2007</title>
		<description><![CDATA[This publication is dedicated to CISCO monitoring management pack design by Metrex Engineering team.
I’d like to start from how did we get this way, i.e. why did we start writing our own Cisco management pack.
Some time ago we’ve been trying to use Zabbix, Nagios, OpManager and other systems for the monitoring issue however I’ll skip [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.vpn.ru/en/?p=3</link>
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