Microsoft System Center 2012 R2 Operations Manager Cookbook

Creating a custom view

In order to display our newly discovered attribute, the easiest way is to create a custom state view. This will allow us to choose the information we wish to show and control how best to display it.

Getting ready

As creating a management pack in the Operations console automatically creates a folder ready for custom views like this, we already have everything we need to get going.

How to do it...

1. Open the SCOM console.
2. Navigate to Monitoring | Monitoring | My Company Build Information.
3. Right-click on the folder and select New | State View.
4. Enter Build Information in the Name field.
5. Click on the ellipses next to the object in the Show data related to: field and choose the Company Build Information class. Click on OK and then Yes