Creating Simple Management Packs
Creating a management pack is an entirely different process than tuning an existing one. It can be quite involved and, depending on the functionality you want to include, it can require the knowledge of an application architect, as well as advanced programming skills for scripting and managed code responses. You need knowledge of all the indicators that can be used to define health states, services, events, performance counters, registry keys, and other identifying information.
However, odds are that you will never have to author a management pack for an application as complex as SQL, MOM, or Exchange. If you need to author complex management packs, refer to the Management Pack Development Guide from Microsoft. At some point you may have to provide basic monitoring for a homegrown application or a single service at your company. That’s what this section is about, implementing a simple management pack to monitor the Windows Update Service.
Management Pack Wizard
To monitor an application, the application must either run as an installed service, have performance monitor objects, or have a .dll that writes events to any of the event logs. Without one of these three, it is very difficult to monitor the application.
The Management Pack Wizard (mpwizard.exe
) is a MOM 2005 resource kit tool that walks you through the creation of new MOM roles and the processing rules that monitor that role based on defined components. It generates event rules that feed into ...