Collecting Service Discovery Data with the Windows Servers Base Operating System State Management Pack

Service discovery is the process of discovering roles, components, and relationships for managed computers. Each Management Pack collects service discovery data that is specific to the technology that the Management Pack supports. Many features of a Management Pack are not available until after service discovery data is collected for the first time. For example, features that require identifying roles, computer groups, and even target computers for specific tasks require service discovery data.

The Microsoft Windows Servers Base Operating System Management Pack collects service discovery data every 12 hours, by default. Therefore, Windows operating system service discovery data might not appear in the MOM Operator console until up to 12 hours after the Management Pack is deployed. Additionally, the reporting component of Microsoft Operations Manager (MOM) relies on a nightly Data Transformation Services (DTS) job to transfer data from the MOM database to the MOM Reporting database. Therefore, service discovery data is not available for Windows Servers Base Operating System reports until after the 12 hour service discovery period has passed and the next nightly DTS job has completed.