TABLE OF CONTENTS Defining a Management Pack
Working with Management Packs
Management packs are the heart of MOM 2005 and provide the rules that allow you to monitor and collect information across multiple systems in your environment. There are numerous management packs available for MOM 2005 from both Microsoft and third-party partners and vendors, but don t overlook the ability to create your own management pack. In this chapter we will look at the definition of a management pack, followed by a look at a number of the management packs provided by Microsoft and third-party partners. We will then look at the tools available to create your own management packs to monitor your own line of business applications.
At this point in the book you should be well aware of what MOM 2005 is designed to do and you should also have a strong understanding of the three key phases that MOM addresses when dealing with server issues including identifying potential issues and problems on your monitored systems, understanding the specific details of the problem, and providing automated resolution to the problem when applicable. All three of these key phases are driven by the management packs imported and configured within MOM 2005.
At its simplest, a management pack (MP) is a collection of rules and possibly accompanying reports that provide a set of criteria used by MOM agents to help determine what information to collect, act on, and forward to the MOM management server. Rules...
