Import a Management Pack in System Center Essentials

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Applies To: Windows Essential Business Server

To import a management pack into System Center Essentials, use the Import Management Packs action in the System Center Essentials console. You may need to do this to monitor an application, service, or device that is not installed by default in Windows EBS.

After you import a management pack into System Center Essentials, it immediately begins monitoring a specific application, service, or device. No additional configuration is required.

Note

The monitoring data that is generated by a management pack that you import appears only in the System Center Essentials console. It does not appear in the Windows EBS Administration Console.

For information about the management packs that are available from Microsoft and from non-Microsoft publishers, see the catalog at the Microsoft Web site (https://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkID=86411).

For more information about management packs in System Center Essentials, see “How to Work with Management Packs” at the Microsoft Web site (https://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkId=131268).

To import a Management Pack in System Center Essentials

  1. Start the System Center Essentials console by using one of the procedures in Start the System Center Essentials Console.

  2. In the System Center Essentials console, click the Administration icon.

  3. Right-click the Management Packs node, and then click Import Management Packs.

  4. In the Select Management Packs to import dialog box, change to the directory that holds your Management Pack file, click one or more Management Packs to import from that directory, and then click Open.

  5. In the Import Management Packs dialog box, click Add or Remove to modify the list of Management Packs to be imported. When the list is complete, click Import.

  6. After the import process is complete, click Close.