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Operations Manager 2007: How to build a Management Pack with the Authoring Console

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In the next couple of blog posts I will focus on how you can create a Management Pack with the Authoring Console.

The authoring console was released with OpsMgr SP1 and is the recommended tool for creating your own Management packs

The creation of the Management pack will happen over 3-4 blog post, where we take one step at the time.

In this scenario we are creating a management pack for eTrust (CA) with the following

The Agenda:

  • Discovering the application (Part 1)
    • Registry discovery for a new type
    • Attribute discovery for a new type
  • Creating Views (Part 1)
    • State View
  • Creating Monitors for the Application (Part 2)
    • Windows Service
    • Performance Counter
  • Creating Rules (Part 2)
    • Event log
  • Extending Views (Alert and events) (Part 3)
    • Alert View
    • Event
    • Performance
  • Extending rules (Reporting) (Part 3)
    • Collection Rule
  • How to seal a Management Pack (Part 3)
  • Creating a Report (Part 4)
    • How to create a report based on a collection rule
  • Importing the Management Pack (Part 4)
    • Importing Management Pack
    • Testing Management Pack

 

Install Authoring Console

The Console can be downloaded from here:

 https://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=6c8911c3-c495-4a03-96df-9731c37aa6d7&DisplayLang=en

Start Authoring Console

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First blog post will be ready in the next couple of days.

Please don’t hesitate to give your comments or ideas to these blog posts.

Regards

Anders Ravnholt

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