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Create a New Management Pack for Customizations

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Applies To: Operations Manager 2007, Operations Manager 2007 R2, SQL Server

The SQL Server Management Pack is sealed so that you cannot change any of the original settings in the management pack file. However, you can create customizations, such as overrides or new monitoring objects, and save them to a different management pack. By default, Operations Manager saves all customizations to the default management pack. As a best practice, you should instead create a separate management pack for each sealed management pack you want to customize.

Creating a new management pack for storing overrides has the following advantages:

  • It simplifies the process of exporting customizations that were created in your test and pre-production environments to your production environment. For example, instead of exporting the default management pack that contains customizations from multiple management packs, you can export just the management pack that contains customizations of a single management pack.

  • It allows you to delete the original management pack without first needing to delete the default management pack. A management pack that contains customizations is dependent on the original management pack. This dependency requires you to delete the management pack with customizations before you can delete the original management pack. If all of your customizations are saved to the default management pack, you must delete the default management pack before you can delete an original management pack.

  • It is easier to track and update customizations to individual management packs.

For more information about sealed and unsealed management packs, see Management Pack Formats. For more information about management pack customizations and the default management pack, see About Management Packs.

To Create a New Management Pack for Customizations

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

  2. Right-click Management Packs, and then click Create New Management Pack.

  3. Enter a name (for example, ADMP Customizations), and then click Next.

  4. Click Create.

Customize the SQL Server Management Pack

The following recommendations may help reduce unnecessary alerts.

  • If you are monitoring instances of SQL Server 2005 that do not have the SQL Server Full Text Search service installed, disable the monitor SQL Server Full Text Search Service Monitor.

  • If you are monitoring instances of SQL Server 2008 that do not have the SQL Server Full Text Filter Daemon Launcher service installed, disable the monitor SQL Server Full Text Search Service Monitor.

  • Some monitors in this management pack check the state of services. These monitors have parameter “Alert only if service startup type is automatic” that is set to True by default, which means that it checks services that are set to start automatically. On servers in a cluster, the startup type for the services is set to manual. If you are monitoring a SQL Server cluster, change the parameter, “Alert only if service startup type is automatic”, to false for the following monitors:

    • SQL Server Windows Service (SQL DB Engine)

    • SQL Server Reporting Services Windows Service

    • SQL Server Analysis Services Windows Service

    • SQL Server Integration Services Windows Service

    • SQL Server Full Text Search Service Monitor

    • SQL Server Agent Windows Service