Appendix: Monitors and Overrides for Management Packs

This section provides detailed procedures and scripts that you can use to display rules and other information about the management packs that you import.

For more information about a monitor and the associated override values, see the Product Knowledge tab for the monitor.

1. In the Operations Console, click Authoring.

2. Expand Management Pack Objects, and then click Monitors.

3. In the Monitors pane, expand the targets until you reach the desired monitor.

4. Right-click the monitor, and then click Properties.

5. Click the Product Knowledge tab.

To display a list of outputs for a management pack's monitors and overrides by using the Command Shell, use the following procedure.

1. Click Start, point to All Programs, point to System Center Operations Manager 2007 R2, and then click Operations Manager Shell.

2. Type the following command: get-monitor -managementPack name.mp | export-csv filename, where filename is the name of the output file, and then press ENTER.

3. A .csv file is created. The .csv file can be opened in Microsoft Office Excel.

To display overrides for a management pack, use the following procedure.

1. Click Start, point to All Programs, point to System Center Operations Manager 2007 R2, and then click Operations Manager Shell.

2. Type the following command: get-override -managementPack name.mp | export-csv filename, where filename is the name of the output file, and then press ENTER.

3. A .csv file is created. The .csv file can be opened in Microsoft Office Excel.

To display a list of rules for the management packs that you imported, use the following procedure.

1. Click Start, point to All Programs, point to System Center Operations Manager 2007 R2, and then click Operations Manager Shell.

2. Type the following command: get-rule | select-object @{Name="MP";Expression={ foreach-object {$_.GetManagementPack().DisplayName }}},DisplayName | sort-object -property MP | export-csv filename, where filename is the name of the output file, and then press ENTER.

3. A .csv file is created. The .csv file can be opened in Microsoft Office Excel.

To display monitor thresholds, use the script described in this section. This script works for the majority of monitors. It creates a .csv file that can be opened in Microsoft Office Excel, and includes the following columns.

Run the following script to create the .csv file that displays the monitor thresholds:

function GetThreshold ([String] $configuration)
{
   $config = [xml] ("<config>" + $configuration + "</config>")
   $threshold = $config.Config.Threshold

   if($threshold -eq $null)
   {
      $threshold = $config.Config.MemoryThreshold
   }

   if($threshold -eq $null)
   {
      $threshold = $config.Config.CPUPercentageThreshold
   }

   if($threshold -eq $null)
   {

      if($config.Config.Threshold1 -ne $null -and $config.Config.Threshold2 -ne $null)
      {
         $threshold = "first threshold is: " + $config.Config.Threshold1 + " second threshold is: " + $config.Config.Threshold2
      }
   }

   if($threshold -eq $null)
   {

      if($config.Config.ThresholdWarnSec -ne $null -and $config.Config.ThresholdErrorSec -ne $null)
      {
         $threshold = "warning threshold is: " + $config.Config.ThresholdWarnSec + " error threshold is: " + $config.Config.ThresholdErrorSec 
      }
   }

   if($threshold -eq $null)
   {

      if($config.Config.LearningAndBaseliningSettings -ne $null)
      {
         $threshold = "no threshold (baseline monitor)"
      }
   }

   return $threshold
}

$perfMonitors = get-monitor -Criteria:"IsUnitMonitor=1 and Category='PerformanceHealth'"

$perfMonitors | select-object @{name="Target";expression={foreach-object {(Get-MonitoringClass -Id:$_.Target.Id).DisplayName}}},DisplayName, @{name="Threshold";expression={foreach-object {GetThreshold $_.Configuration}}}, @{name="AlertOnState";expression={foreach-object {$_.AlertSettings.AlertOnState}}}, @{name="AutoResolveAlert";expression={foreach-object {$_.AlertSettings.AutoResolve}}}, @{name="AlertSeverity";expression={foreach-object {$_.AlertSettings.AlertSeverity}}} | sort Target, DisplayName | export-csv "c:\monitor_thresholds.csv"

To display performance collection rules, use the script in this section. This script works for the majority of monitors. It creates a .csv file that can be opened in Microsoft Office Excel, and includes the following columns.

To display the performance collection rules present in the management group, run the following script:

function GetPerfCounterName ([String] $configuration)
{
   $config = [xml] ("<config>" + $configuration + "</config>")
   return ($config.Config.ObjectName + "\" + $config.Config.CounterName)
}

function GetFrequency ([String] $configuration)
{
   $config = [xml] ("<config>" + $configuration + "</config>")
   $frequency = $config.Config.Frequency;

   if($frequency -eq $null)
   {
      $frequency = $config.Config.IntervalSeconds;
   }

   return ($frequency)
}

function GetDisplayName($performanceRule)
{
   if($performanceRule.DisplayName -eq $null)
   {
      return ($performanceRule.Name);
   }
   else
   {
      return ($performanceRule.DisplayName);
   }
}

function GetWriteActionNames($performanceRule)
{
   $writeActions = ""; 
   foreach($writeAction in $performanceRule.WriteActionCollection)
   {
      $writeActions += " " + $writeAction.Name;
   }
   return ($writeActions);
}

$perf_collection_rules = get-rule -criteria:"Category='PerformanceCollection'"

$perf_collection_rules | select-object @{name="Type";expression={foreach-object {(Get-MonitoringClass -id:$_.Target.Id).DisplayName}}},@{name="RuleDisplayName";expression={foreach-object {GetDisplayName $_}}} ,@{name="CounterName";expression={foreach-object {GetPerfCounterName $_.DataSourceCollection[0].Configuration}}},@{name="Frequency";expression={foreach-object {GetFrequency $_.DataSourceCollection[0].Configuration}}},@{name="WriteActions";expression={foreach-object {GetWriteActionNames $_}}}  | sort Type,RuleDisplayName,CounterName | export-csv "c:\perf_collection_rules.csv"