Configure a Connected Management Group

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Applies To: Operations Manager 2007 R2

The Operations Manager Management Pack includes monitoring for testing the connectivity between connected management groups. This monitoring, which is disabled by default, performs a synthetic transaction and requires specific permissions to work. To ensure the required permissions are granted, configure the Connected Management Group Account Run As profile with the necessary associations.

If your environment includes connected management groups and you want to use monitoring for testing the connectivity between connected management groups, perform the following steps to configure the Connected Management Group Account Run As profile and enable the necessary monitors to turn on this monitoring.

To create the necessary associations for the Connected Management Group Account Run As profile for the connected management group account

  1. Open the Operations console, and then in the navigation pane, click the Administration button.

  2. Under Administration, expand Security, and then click Run As Profiles.

  3. Double-click Connected Management Group Account, and then click the Run As Accounts tab.

  4. Click New, and then in the Run As Account drop-down menu, click a Run As account that has permission to access the connected management group.

  5. Under Matching Computers, click your connected management group, and then click OK.

To enable the Tiered Management Group Synthetic Transaction monitor

  1. Open the Operations console, and then in the navigation pane, click the Authoring button.

  2. Under Authoring, expand Management Pack Objects, and then click Monitors.

  3. In the list of monitors, expand Connected Management Group, expand Entity Health, expand Availability, and then click Tiered Management Group Synthetic Transaction.

  4. On the toolbar, click Overrides, point to Override the Monitor, and then click For all objects of type: Connected Management Group.

  5. Under Override-controlled parameters, find the Enabled value that appears in the Parameter Name column, and then select the check box next to it in the Override column.

  6. In the Override Setting column for the Enabled parameter, in the drop-down box, click True.

  7. In the Select destination management pack list, click the appropriate management pack in which to store the override or create a new unsealed management pack by clicking New.

    Note

    By default, when you create a management pack object, disable a rule or monitor, or create an override, Operations Manager saves the setting to the Default Management Pack. As a best practice, you should create a separate management pack for each sealed management pack you want to customize, rather than saving your customized settings to the Default Management Pack. For more information, see Customizing Management Packs (https://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkId=140601).

  8. When you complete your changes, click OK.