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Use the Authoring pane of the Essentials 2010 console to configure Management Pack objects, distributed applications and groups.

In This Section

Management Packs

Provides an overview of Management Packs, including information about the default Management Pack.
Management Pack Templates and the Add Monitoring Wizard

Provides information about how templates and the Add Monitoring Wizard are used to create and target custom object types.
Web Application Editor

Provides information about how synthetic transactions can be used to evaluate Web site performance.
Distributed Applications

Provides information about the Distributed Application Designer.
Groups

Provides information about the logical collections of objects, or groups.
Management Pack Objects

Provides information about Management Pack objects (attributes, monitors, object discoveries, rules, tasks, and views).
Targeting

Provides important information about correctly targeting your monitors, rules, and views.

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