Management Packs and DSI

Kerrie Meyler — Thu, 20 Mar 2008 23:07:17 -0400

"Avodart" recently posted a comment to an entry on DSI dated 12/12/07. The comment read:

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Operations Manager: Management Pack Evolution

Kerrie Meyler — Sat, 13 Oct 2007 12:38:46 -0400

If you've worked with both MOM 2005 (or MOM 2000) and OpsMgr 2007, you will have noticed that the structure of management packs has changed with Operations Manager 2007. Let's talk about that a little.

Management packs (MPs) provide a snapshot of operational health and are the mechanism OpsMgr 2007 uses to manage and monitor specific applications and services. Management packs make it possible to collect and utilize a wide range of information from various sources. They describe what data to examine and provide analysis of that data. Management packs are the brain of OpsMgr. Without MPs, OpsMgr is like a big empty shell, as the management packs provide the logic of what to monitor and what to do when a condition warrants attention.

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