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Volume Activation 2.0 Operations Guide

KMS initialization failures, DNS SRV publishing issues, when KMS counts drop below activation thresholds, and when no KMS activity occurs for more than 8 hours.

To download the KMS Management Pack, go to the System Center Operations Manager product catalog at http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkID=110332. This download includes a Management Pack guide that covers installation, configuration, and included rules. Several sample reports are also included, as well as data grooming and indexing processes.

KMS Activity Reporting

If an OpsMgr 2005 agent is installed on KMS hosts, the event log data generated on the KMS host is collected and forwarded to the Operations data warehouse. The data is then aggregated in the Operations data warehouse, so it is available for reports. Table 3 describes the reports that are included in the KMS Management Pack.

Table 3: Reports Included in the KMS Management Pack

Report Name	Description

Activation Count	Displays the number of KMS activations for each Windows edition across a
Summary	number of historical time ranges.

Virtual Machine	Displays, by Windows edition, the number of virtual and physical KMS
Summary	client computers that have activated in the past 14 days.

KMS Activity	Displays new KMS activations for each Windows edition within the past
Summary	day. You can display data from all KMS hosts or you can add a filter to
	display data from a subset of KMS hosts.

Licensing Status	Displays the number of days left until a KMS client needs to renew its
Summary	activation, as well as the license state for each KMS client that has
	connected to a KMS host.

Machine	Displays the number of computers that are in an Initial/Out of Box (OOB),
Expiration Chart	Out of time (OOT)/Expired, or Non-Genuine grace periods, and which could
	go to an unlicensed condition in the next 30 days.

Machine	Lists the computers that are in Initial/Out of Box (OOB), Out of time
Expiration Detail	(OOT)/Expired, or Non-Genuine grace periods and which could go to an
	RFM condition in the next 7 days.

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