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Getting Started with Microsoft System Center Operations Manager

You're reading from   Getting Started with Microsoft System Center Operations Manager Using SCOM 2016 TP 5

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Product type Paperback
Published in Jun 2016
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781785289743
Length 560 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Kevin Greene Kevin Greene
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Preface 1. Introduction to System Center Operations Manager FREE CHAPTER 2. Installing System Center Operations Manager 3. Exploring the Consoles 4. Deploying Agents 5. Working with Management Packs 6. Managing Network Devices 7. Configuring Service Models with Distributed Applications 8. Alert Tuning the Easy Way 9. Visualizing Your IT with Dashboards 10. Creating Alert Subscriptions and Reports 11. Backing Up, Maintenance and Troubleshooting Index

What's inside a management pack?


Now that you have an understanding of the different types of management packs that OpsMgr uses, it's time to take a look under the hood and discuss the contents of a management pack. Depending on what the management pack was authored for, you will find one or more of these elements inside.

Classes (Object types)

Also referred to as object types, classes represent a kind (or type) of object in OpsMgr and every object is basically a single unit of a class that can be monitored. Examples of an object could be a computer, a network device, a logical disk or a power supply. It could also be an Active Directory domain, an application or an installation of SQL.

Each object in OpsMgr has its own class and that object is an instance that shares a common set of properties with other objects that are all part of a particular class.

Think of it like this, you're monitoring the C:\ logical disk on a Windows Server 2012 computer. The logical disk is seen as an object in OpsMgr...

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