M50231: System Center Operations Manager 2007: Advanced Management Pack Authoring Version: A Length: 3 Days Published: July 01, 2009 Language(s): English Audience(s): IT Professionals Level: 400 Technology: Microsoft System Center Operations Manager 2007 Type: Course Delivery Method: Instructor-led (classroom) About this Course 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. Audience Profile This course is intended for developers and IT professionals responsible for designing and authoring management packs for Operations Manager 2007. At Course Completion After completing this course, students will be able to: oDesign a scalable management pack supporting a variety of application structures oDefine an appropriate health facade for centrally managing a product or application oUnderstand and implement the Operations Manager concept of discovery oDefine monitoring requirements on a variety of aspects of service availability and health oImplement these requirements in a management pack oProvide application administrators with information in a manner that lowers the ownership cost of the product or application oDemonstrate a mastery of management pack development Before attending this course, students must have: oExperience with Operations Manager 2007 management packs oA requirement to develop a standalone management pack for a product or application oBasic development skills including object oriented concepts such as classes and inheritance oProficiency with VBScript language Course Outline Module 1: Designing and Building a Basic Management Pack This module will cover the design and building of a basic management pack. Lessons oGetting Manageability Right oFast Fly-Through oPlanning Your MP oImplementing the Facade oDiscovery oImplementing Monitoring oComposition oReporting Lab : Facade oCreate initial management pack oDefine and build high level classes Lab : Discovery oDiscover instances of defined classes oImplement bottom up discovery Lab : Monitoring oCreate basic rules and monitors Lab : Consolidation oAdd consolidation and suppression to existing rules oExpose overrides oCreate data source modules and compose a workflow Lab : Reporting oAdd a linked report to a management pack After completing this module, students will be able to: oDefine a model for monitoring an application oBuild a basic management pack Module 2: Going from Basic to Professional This module will build on the basic concepts to increase the efficiencies of a management pack. Lessons oTaking control of discoveries oResponding to state changes oInteracting with the operator oMinimizing the noise oAdvanced knowledge Lab : Discoveries oCreate a discovery in response to an event oUse multiple discoveries for a single class oCreate snapshot and incremental discoveries Lab : Diagnostics and Recoveries oAdd a diagnostic and recovery to a monitor Lab : Views and Tasks oCreate a complex view oCreate a task Lab : Alert Suppression oDefine suppression for an alert rule to increment repeat count oUse synthetic transactions to perform automatic reset and triangulation After completing this module, students will be able to: oCreate on demand discoveries and understand undiscovery oDefine and implement appropriate automated responses to state changes oUnderstand common mistakes with automated monitoring responses oProvide relevant information and prompted actions to application administrators oUnderstand how to incrementally updated knowledge without versioning the entire management pack Module 3: Advanced Implementation Strategies This module will provide strategies for extending a management pack to support larger and more complex applications. Lessons oDistributed monitoring oTroubleshooting discoveries oScenario based deployment oManagement large instance spaces oTesting your management pack Lab : Distributed Monitoring oDesign a roll-up model for an application distributed across multiple locations oControl alert generation using dependency monitors Lab : Troubleshooting Discoveries oTroubleshoot broken discoveries Lab : Managing Large Instance Spaces oSelectively choose instances to discover oModify a script to support cookdown oControl the number of running workflows After completing this module, students will be able to: oDesign a management pack suitable for managing a complex application distributed across multiple locations oDesign a management pack supporting a large number of discovered instances oTroubleshoot problem discoveries oIntelligently break up a management pack into multiple files to minimize operational requirements