DiscoveryClass

Article
05/16/2012

Applies To: Operations Manager 2007 R2, System Center Operations Manager 2007

Declares the class type of the instances to be discovered.

Schema Hierarchy

ManagementPack
  Monitoring
    Discoveries
      Discovery
        DiscoveryTypes
          DiscoveryClass

Syntax

<DiscoveryClass TypeID=”ClassTypeID”>
   <Property TypeID=”ClassTypeID” PropertyID=”PropertyID”/> 
</DiscoveryClass>

Attributes and Elements

The following sections describe attributes, child elements, and the parent element of the DiscoveryClass element.

Attributes

Attribute	Description
TypeID	Required attribute. The ID of the class type to be discovered.

Child Elements

Element	Description
Property (DiscoveryClass)	Optional element. Represents a class type property to be populated at discovery.

Parent Elements

Element	Description
DiscoveryTypes	Contains the class and/or relationship type IDs that the discovery will discover.

Remarks

Example

The following XML sample illustrates a DiscoveryClass element and the referenced ClassType element to be discovered. The base classes of the discovery class are included to illustrate how you can populate the properties of the discovery class as well as the properties of its base classes. To see the entire discovery definition, see Discovery.

<ClassType ID="Microsoft.Windows.LogicalDevice" Base="System!System.LogicalHardware" Accessibility="Public" Hosted="true" Abstract="true">
  <Property ID="DeviceID" Type="string" Key="true" />
  <Property ID="Name" Type="string" />
  <Property ID="Description" Type="string" />
</ClassType>

<ClassType ID="Microsoft.Windows.LogicalDisk" Base="Microsoft.Windows.LogicalDevice" Accessibility="Public" Hosted="true" Abstract="true" />

<ClassType ID="Microsoft.Windows.Client.LogicalDisk" Abstract="true" Accessibility="Public" Base="Windows!Microsoft.Windows.LogicalDisk" Hosted="true" Singleton="false">
  <Property ID="FileSystem" Type="string" />
  <Property ID="Compressed" Type="string" />
  <Property ID="Size" Type="string" />
  <Property ID="DriveType" Type="string" />
  <Property ID="SupportsDiskQuota" Type="string" />
  <Property ID="QuotasDisabled" Type="string" />
  <Property ID="SupportsFileBasedCompression" Type="string" />
</ClassType>

<ClassType ID="Microsoft.Windows.Client.XP.LogicalDisk" Abstract="false" Accessibility="Public" Base="WindowsClient!Microsoft.Windows.Client.LogicalDisk" Hosted="true" Singleton="false" />

<DiscoveryClass TypeID="Microsoft.Windows.Client.XP.LogicalDisk">
  <Property TypeID="Windows!Microsoft.Windows.LogicalDevice" PropertyID="DeviceID" />
  <Property TypeID="Windows!Microsoft.Windows.LogicalDevice" PropertyID="Name" />
  <Property TypeID="Windows!Microsoft.Windows.LogicalDevice" PropertyID="Description" />
  <Property TypeID="WindowsClient!Microsoft.Windows.Client.LogicalDisk" PropertyID="FileSystem" />
  <Property TypeID="WindowsClient!Microsoft.Windows.Client.LogicalDisk" PropertyID="Compressed" />
  <Property TypeID="WindowsClient!Microsoft.Windows.Client.LogicalDisk" PropertyID="Size" />
  <Property TypeID="WindowsClient!Microsoft.Windows.Client.LogicalDisk" PropertyID="DriveType" />
  <Property TypeID="WindowsClient!Microsoft.Windows.Client.LogicalDisk" PropertyID="SupportsDiskQuota" />
  <Property TypeID="WindowsClient!Microsoft.Windows.Client.LogicalDisk" PropertyID="QuotasDisabled" />
  <Property TypeID="WindowsClient!Microsoft.Windows.Client.LogicalDisk" PropertyID="SupportsFileBasedCompression" />
</DiscoveryClass>

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