Providers

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Providers are a key component of a rule. The provider determines how and where to get the data that rules depend on.

MOM exposes the following provider types that give authors access to many of the most commonly used data sources for monitoring and management:

  • Windows NT Event Log Provider

  • Windows NT Performance Counter Provider

  • Application Log Provider

  • WMI Events Provider

  • WMI Numeric Events Provider

  • Timed Event Provider

MOM also provides authors with a customizable UI-based means to create custom providers to acquire data from data sources, such as custom Windows NT Event Logs or a Performance Counter Object. All of this can be done without writing or code. The sections that follow describe the capabilities of each base provider type, in detail.

Typically, providers are created while rules are being authored. The Rules Creation Wizard provides a dialog that enables authors to select an existing provider, or create their own, using Operations Managers provider extensibility features.