Good summary of how to use MOM to monitor non-Windows devices...

So a colleague of mine directed me to this Technet blog entry:  https://blogs.technet.com/ddillon/archive/2006/04/06/424449.aspx 

The above provides a good summary of how to use MOM to monitor non-Windows devices...  I know more then a few of my EDU customers run mixed shops, so this might be of interest...