This course provides students with the knowledge and skills to design and author a professional management pack. The course is structured into three progressive modules. Module 1 introduces basic approaches for distributed application monitoring. Module 2 is for those who have already attended the first module and then want to further their management pack design knowledge. Module 3 presents advanced information to help the author effectively troubleshoot common conditions. Together, the three modules provide guidance on how to best define and implement logic for effectively measuring the health of a product or service and lowering its operational costs for end customers.

This course incorporates materials from the Official Microsoft Learning Products (OMLP):

• 50231 - System Center Operations Manager 2007: Advanced Management Pack Authoring

What You'll Learn

After completing this course, students will be able to:

• Design a scalable management pack supporting a variety of application structures
• Define an appropriate health facade for centrally managing a product or application
• Understand and implement the Operations Manager concept of discovery
• Define monitoring requirements on a variety
• of aspects of service availability and health
• Implement these requirements in a management pack
• Provide application administrators with information in a manner that lowers the ownership cost of the product or application
• Demonstrate a mastery of management pack development

Who Needs to Attend

This course is intended for developers and IT professionals responsible for designing and authoring management packs for Operations Manager 2007

Prerequisites

• Before attending this course, students must have:
• Experience with Operations Manager 2007 management packs
• A requirement to develop a standalone management pack for a product or application
• Basic development skills including object oriented concepts such as classes and inheritance
• Proficiency with VBScript language

Follow-On Courses

There are no follow-ons for this course.

Course Outline

1. Designing and Building a Basic Management Pack

• Getting Manageability Right
• Fast Fly-Through
• Planning Your MP
• Implementing the Facade
• Discovery
• Implementing Monitoring
• Composition
• Reporting

2. Going from Basic to Professional

• Taking control of discoveries
• Responding to state changes
• Interacting with the operator
• Minimizing the noise
• Advanced knowledge

3. Advanced Implementation Strategies

• Distributed monitoring
• Troubleshooting discoveries
• Scenario based deployment
• Management large instance spaces
• Testing your management pack

Labs

Lab 1: Facade

• Create initial management pack
• Define and build high level classes

Lab 2: Discovery

• Discover instances of defined classes
• Implement bottom up discovery

Lab 3: Monitoring

• Create basic rules and monitors

Lab 4: Consolidation

• Add consolidation and suppression to existing rules
• Expose overrides
• Create data source modules and compose a workflow

Lab 5: Reporting

• Add a linked report to a management pack

Lab 7: Discoveries

• Create a discovery in response to an event
• Use multiple discoveries for a single class
• Create snapshot and incremental discoveries

Lab 8: Diagnostics and Recoveries

• Add a diagnostic and recovery to a monitor

Lab 9: Views and Tasks

• Create a complex view
• Create a task

Lab 10: Alert Suppression

• Define suppression for an alert rule to increment repeat count
• Use synthetic transactions to perform automatic reset and triangulation

Lab 11: Distributed Monitoring

• Design a roll-up model for an application distributed across multiple locations
• Control alert generation using dependency monitors

Lab 12: Troubleshooting Discoveries

• Troubleshoot broken discoveries

Lab 13: Managing Large Instance Spaces

• Selectively choose instances to discover
• Modify a script to support cookdown
• Control the number of running workflows