Management Pack Templates and the Add Monitoring Wizard in Essentials
Applies To: System Center Essentials 2010
Management Pack templates and the Add Monitoring Wizard are used to create and target custom object types in System Center Essentials 2010, enabling you to extend the management capabilities of Essentials 2010.
When you create a custom object type with the Add Monitoring Wizard, the attributes, monitors, object discoveries, rules, tasks, and views necessary to start monitoring the applicable objects are automatically created and added with the object type to the specified Management Pack. These display in the Essentials console and are managed just as if they were originally provided with the Management Pack.
Essentials 2010 provides templates for similar object types to help make it easier to create custom objects with the Add Monitoring Wizard. This is comparable to the Microsoft Word templates that help make it easier to create similar Word document types. Essentials 2010 provides the following templates:
OLE DB Data Source This template generates synthetic transactions that monitor the availability of databases. The default view for this template is in the Synthetic Transaction folder of the Monitoring pane of the Essentials console.
TCP Port This template generates synthetic transactions that monitor the availability of services. The default view for this template is in the Synthetic Transaction folder of the Monitoring pane of the Essentials console.
Web Application This template generates monitors that verify the availability of Web-based applications. The default view for this template is in the Web Application folder of the Monitoring pane of the Essentials console.
Windows Service This template generates monitors and rules that verify the availability of a Windows service. The results of these monitors and rules are in alert and state views of the Monitoring pane of the Essentials console.
New templates can be added to the Management Group. For example, the ASP.NET Management Pack adds the ASP .NET Application and ASP.NET Web Service templates.
See Also
Concepts
Authoring Pane in Essentials
Management Pack Objects in Essentials
Monitoring in Essentials