Management pack templates and the Add Monitoring Wizard are used to create and target custom Operations Manager 2007 object types, enabling you to extend the management capabilities of Operations Manager 2007.
When you create a custom object type with the Add Monitoring Wizard, the attributes, monitors, object discoveries, rules, tasks, and views necessary to start monitoring the applicable objects are automatically created and added with the object type to the specified management pack. These display in the Operations Manager 2007 Operations console and are managed just as if they were originally provided with the management pack.
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| By default, when you create a management pack object, disable a rule or monitor, or create an override, Operations Manager saves the setting to the Default Management Pack. As a best practice, you should create a separate management pack for each sealed management pack you want to customize, rather than saving your customized settings to the Default Management Pack. For more information, see Default Management Pack. |
Operations Manager 2007 provides templates for similar object types to help make it easier to create custom Operations Manager 2007 objects with the Add Monitoring Wizard. This is comparable to the Microsoft Word templates that help make it easier to create similar Word document types. Operations Manager 2007 provides the following templates:
- OLE DB Data
Source This template generates synthetic
transactions that monitor the availability of databases. The
default view for this template is in the Synthetic
Transaction folder of the Monitoring pane of the
Operations console.
- TCP Port This
template generates synthetic transactions that monitor the
availability of services. The default view for this template is in
the Synthetic Transaction folder of the Monitoring
pane of the Operations console.
- Web Application This
template generates monitors that verify the availability of
Web-based applications. The default view for this template is in
the Web Application folder of the Monitoring pane of
the Operations console.
- Windows Service This
template generates monitors and rules that verify the availability
of a Windows service. The results of these monitors and rules are
in alert and state views of the Monitoring pane of the
Operations console.
- UNIX/Linux
LogFile This template generates monitors that
track entries in log files. The default view for this template is
in the UNIX/Linux LogFile folder of the Monitoring pane of
the Operations console.
- UNIX/Linux
Service This template generates monitors and
rules that verify the availability of a UNIX or Linux service. The
default view for this template is in the UNIX/Linux Service folder
of the Monitoring pane of the Operations console.
New templates can be added to the management group. For example, the ASP.NET Management Pack adds the ASP .NET Application and ASP.NET Web Service templates.
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