Reporting Overview
MOM 2005 features a completely redesigned reporting infrastructure, based on Microsoft SQL Server Reporting Services, and offers users the ability to include reports as part of Management Packs. The typical steps involved in authoring reports, to include as part of a Management Pack, are:
Authoring rules and classes to collect the necessary data for the report.
Authoring reports in the development environment. This involves authoring Structured Query Language (SQL) queries to query the collected data, report layout and design, and testing the report by deploying it to the report server.
Exporting the authored reports to an XML file to be included with the Management Pack .akm file.