How Health Rolls Up

Applies To: Operations Manager 2007

The DPM 2010 Management Pack views DPM as a layered structure, where each layer depends on the layers beneath it to be healthy. The top of this structure is the entire DPM environment (known as the Management Group), and the lowest layer includes all of the DPM Agents. When the state of one or more objects in a lower level changes significantly, the state of the objects in the upper levels changes accordingly. This action is called "rolling up health."

A significant change is one where an object changes state from good to bad or vice versa. The upper layers change in response to changes in the lower layer. So if one of the objects in the lower layers changes to a bad state, the objects in the higher layers reflect that change.

In the DPM management pack, the worst condition of a lower object rolls up to the parent instance. Therefore, if a higher-level object has five objects under it and one of them goes bad, the higher-level object shows up as bad.