Understanding Management Pack Operations

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Applies To: Operations Manager 2007

This section provides information about the types of objects the Windows Server 2003 Cluster Management Pack for Operations Manager 2007 discover, information about classes, how health rolls up, and monitoring scenarios.

Objects the Windows Server 2003 Cluster Management Pack Discovers

The Windows Server 2003 Cluster Management Pack automatically discovers the following object types:

  • Windows Clusters

  • Windows Cluster

  • Windows Server 2003 Cluster Service

  • Windows Server Cluster Node

  • Windows Server Cluster Network

  • Windows Server 2003 Cluster Network Interface

  • Windows Server 2003 Resource Group

  • Windows Server Hosted Resource Group

  • Windows Server Cluster Resource

For more information about an object discovery rule, view the properties of the discovery, and then click Product Knowledge. To access object discovery rules, go to the Object Discoveries node under the Management Pack Objects node in the Operations Console Authoring pane.

For information about discovering objects, see the "Object Discoveries in Operations Manager 2007 " (https://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkId=108505) topic in Operations Manager 2007 Help.

Classes

The following diagram shows the classes defined in this management pack.

diagram of classes

How Health Rolls Up

The following illustration shows how health rolls up in this management pack.

Health rollup in management pack

Key Monitoring Scenarios

The Windows Server 2003 Cluster Management Pack for Operations Manager 2007 includes a number of key monitoring scenarios that are configurable.

Some of the conditions monitored by this management pack are:

  • Configuration or hardware issues that interfere with the starting of the Cluster service.

  • Connectivity problems that affect communication between cluster nodes or between a node and a domain controller.

  • Active Directory Domain Services (AD DS) settings that affect the cluster; for example, permissions needed by the computer account that is used by the cluster.

  • Configuration issues with the network infrastructure needed by the cluster; for example, issues with Domain Name System (DNS).

  • Issues with the availability of a cluster resource, such as a clustered file share.

  • Issues with the cluster storage.

For information about the monitoring pane, see "Monitoring Pane in Operations Manager 2007 " (https://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/bb309433.aspx).