How to Customize a Management Pack
Applies To: Operations Manager 2007 R2, Operations Manager 2007 SP1
You can customize a management pack by using overrides. Overrides adjust the configuration of Operations Manager monitoring settings for monitors, attributes, object discoveries, and rules. When you create an override, you can apply it to a single managed object or to a group of managed objects. You must have Advanced Operator user rights to create and edit overrides.
The use of overrides is key to controlling the amount of data that is collected by Operations Manager. When you create a monitor, rule, or attribute you target it at an object type, but often the available object types are broad in scope. You can then use groups and overrides together to narrow the focus of the monitor, rule, attribute, or object discovery. You can also override existing monitors, rules, attributes, or object discoveries that are from management packs.
The following procedure overrides a new monitor, but you can also use these steps to override a rule, attribute, or object discovery. You must have Advanced Operator user rights to create an override.
To override a monitor
Log on to the computer with an account that is a member of the Operations Manager Advanced Operator role for the Operations Manager 2007 management group.
In the Operations console, click the Authoring button.
Note
When you run the Operations console on a computer that is not a management server, the Connect To Server dialog box displays. In the Server name text box, type the name of the Operations Manager 2007 management server to which you want the Operations console to connect.
In the Authoring pane, expand Management Pack Objects and then click Monitors.
In the Monitors pane, expand an object type completely and then click a monitor.
On the Operations Manager toolbar, click Overrides and then point to Override the Monitor. You can choose to override this monitor for objects of a specific type or for all objects within a group. After you choose which group of object types to override, the Override Properties dialog box opens, enabling you to view the default settings contained in this monitor. You can then choose whether to override each individual setting contained in the monitor.
Note
If the Overrides button is not available, make sure you have selected a monitor and not a container object in the Monitors pane.
Click to place a check mark in the Override column next to each setting that you want to override.
In the Select destination management pack menu, select the management pack in which you want to store the overrides.
Note
If you do not have an unsealed management pack and do not want to save the overrides in the Default Management Pack, you can click the New button to create a management pack for the overrides.
Click OK.