How to View the State of Members of an Operations Manager 2007 Group

Applies To: Operations Manager 2007 R2, Operations Manager 2007 SP1

Use the following procedure to view the state of members of an Operations Manager 2007 group.

To view the state of members of an Operations Manager 2007 group

Log on to the computer with an account that is a member of the Operations Manager Authors role for the Operations Manager 2007 management group.
In the Operations console, click the Authoring button.
In the Navigation pane, expand Authoring, and then click Groups.
In the Groups pane, right-click the group for which you want to view the state of members, and then click View group state to display the state of the members of the group.

Note

If you have a large deployment, there might be a delay between the time a new group is created and when its state is calculated. Until rollup configuration is calculated, the state will be displayed as unmonitored (white icon).

The state of an object will be Unknown if the management pack for the object, such as Microsoft SQL Server 2005, has not been imported into the management group.