Welcome to the Management Pack Authoring Guide for Operations Manager 2007.
Operations Manager 2007 is a service-oriented monitoring system that enables you to monitor the health of your end-to-end information technology services. Operations Manager can collect and consolidate events, alerts, and health status information from across your organization and enable you to proactively identify and resolve potential issues before they cause downtime.
The key to configuring and running Operations Manager is the management pack, an XML-based file that defines the objects that Operations Manager will discover and monitor and what information will be collected about these objects.
The purpose of this guide is to document how to create a management pack.
Intended Audience and Prerequisites
This guide is intended for anyone who needs to create a management pack.
Before you begin, you should have a basic familiarity with XML, and access to an XML editing tool. Familiarity with XML Path Language (XPath) and XML Query Language (XQuery) syntax is also helpful.
You should also have a basic understanding of how Operations Manager 2007 and system health modeling works. For more information, see the Operations Manager 2007 Key Concepts section of this guide.
A Management Pack author needs to understand how the monitored product is integrated into a network environment. This includes an understanding of overall performance indicators that your Management Pack user relies on to operate the monitored product on a daily basis. A Management Pack should include knowledge that allows an administrator to quickly react to failures and as well as to proactively identify developing issues before they interrupt productivity.
What Is In the Authoring Guide
This guide is divided into 4 sections:
- The Operations Manager 2007 Key Concepts section describes the key concepts used in Operations Manager 2007, including how modeling is implemented in Operations Manager, and key changes between Microsoft Operations Manager (MOM) 2005 and System Center Operations Manager 2007.
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The Management Pack Concepts section covers essential Management Pack authoring concepts, including workflows and modules, data types, and the management pack schema.
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The Designing and Building Management Packs section provides information and examples on authoring a management pack, including modeling, creating discoveries, and authoring tools and techniques.
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The Management Pack Reference section provides a management pack schema reference, documentation for commonly used module, monitor and data types, variable notation, and more.
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