Monitor State

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Applies To: Opalis 6.3

The Monitor State object monitors the state of a System Center Operations Manager object that you specify. You can use the Monitor State object to trigger a corrective policy when an object with a Warning state is detected.

For the procedure to configure this object, see: Configuring the Monitor State Object.

The following tables list the properties and published data for this object. The object publishes all of the data from the properties into published data.

Monitor State Properties

Element Description Valid Values Look up

Connection

The connection string to the System Center Operations Manager server that you are using

String

Yes

Object

The name of the System Center Operations Manager object to be monitored

String

Yes

State

The health state of the System Center Operations Manager monitoring object

Critical

Healthy

Uninitialized

Warning

Yes

Monitor State Published Data

Element Description

AvailabilityLastModified

The description of the last time that the availability of the monitor was changed

Connection

The connection string to the System Center Operations Manager server that you are using

DisplayName

The display name of the System Center Operations Manager monitoring object

Domain

The domain that the alert came from

FullName

The full name of the System Center Operations Manager monitoring object

HealthState

The current health state of the System Center Operations Manager monitoring object

Id

The unique ID of the System Center Operations Manager monitoring object

InMaintenanceMode

Indicates whether the System Center Operations Manager monitoring object is in maintenance mode

IsAvailable

Indicates whether the System Center Operations Manager monitoring object is available to perform a monitoring operation

IsManaged

Indicates whether the System Center Operations Manager monitoring object is managed

LastModified

The time that the System Center Operations Manager monitoring object was last modified

LeastDerivedNonAbstractingMonitoringClassId

The globally unique ID for the least derived non-abstract monitoring class

MaintenanceModeLastModified

The time that the maintenance mode was last changed

ManagementGroup

The Management Group that the System Center Operations Manager monitoring object belongs to

ManagementGroupId

The unique ID of the Management Group

Name

The name of the System Center Operations Manager monitoring object

Path

The path to the System Center Operations Manager monitoring object

Server

The name of the System Center Operations Manager server

StateLastModified

The time that the System Center Operations Manager monitoring object state was last changed

Username

The user name that was used to access the System Center Operations Manager server

Configuring the Monitor State Object

To configure the Monitor State object

  1. From the Objects pane, drag a Monitor State object to the active policy.

  2. Double-click the Monitor State object icon. The Properties dialog opens.

  3. Configure the settings in the Details tab:

    1. In the Server section, click the ellipsis button (...), and select the Operations Manager server Connection that you want to use for this object. Click OK.

    2. In the Monitor section, enter the name of the Object that you want to monitor, or you can click the ellipsis (…) button next to the text box to browse for the object.

      You can also use published data to automatically populate the value of the property from the data output by a previous object in the workflow.

      To use published data

      1. Right-click the property value box, click Subscribe, and then click Published Data.

      2. Click the Object drop-down box and select the object from which you want to obtain the data.

      3. To view additional data elements common across the policy, select Show Common Published Data.

      4. Click the published data element you want to use, and then click OK.

        For a list of the data elements published by each object, see the Published Data tables in the object topic. For information about the Common Published Data items, see the "Policy Workflow Rules" chapter of the Opalis Integration Server Client User Guide (https://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkId=205284).

    3. Select the object State that you want to monitor.

  4. For information about the settings on the General and Run Behavior tabs, see Common Configuration Instructions for All Objects.

  5. Click Finish.

Other Objects

The Integration Pack for System Center Operations Manager contains the following additional objects: