Guide for System Center Monitoring Pack for Application Virtualization Server 5.0

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This guide was written based on version 1.0 of the Monitoring Pack for Application Virtualization Server 5.0.

Guide History

Release Date Changes

4/1/2013

Original release of this guide

Supported Configurations

This Monitoring pack requires System Center Operations Manager 2007 R2 or later. A dedicated Operations Manager management group is not required.

The following table details the supported configurations for the System Center Monitoring Pack for Application Virtualization Server 5.0:

Configuration

Support

Application Virtualization Server

5.0

Clustered servers

Yes

Agentless monitoring

Not supported/not tested

Virtual environment

Not supported/not tested

Before Import

It is recommended that you deploy Application Virtualization (App-V) 5.0 before importing this monitoring pack. However this monitoring pack will discover the App-V (Management, Publishing, Reporting) server infrastructure as it is deployed. To supplement the monitoring of your Application Virtualization 5.0 environment import and configure the monitoring packs for Microsoft Internet Information Services (IIS) and SQL Server that correspond to the versions used in your App-V deployment. The App-V Supported Configurations are noted in the previous section (Supported Configurations).

How to Import

Review the Links section of this document for more information about how to import using System Center Operations Manager 2012 and System Center Operations Manager 2007 R2

Monitoring Pack Scope

The scope of this Monitoring pack includes:

  • Discovery of the following Application Virtualization 5.0 Services: Management, Publishing, Reporting.

  • Monitoring of the Application Virtualization 5.0 Services:

    • In-place monitors for critical failure events.

    • In-place monitors for dependent Windows services.

  • Collection of significant Application Virtualization Events.

Mandatory Configuration

If the Application Virtualization 5.0 Reporting functionality has not been previously deployed you must disable Reporting Service Discovery. For information about how to override a discovery – review the Discovery Configuration section of this document.

Files in this Monitoring Pack

The Monitoring Pack for Application Virtualization Server 5.0 includes the following files:

  • Microsoft.ApplicationVirtualization.5.Server.MP