All of the elements required for monitoring an application with Operations Manager including the service model, health model, views, and reports are stored in management packs. A management pack is an .xml file that conforms to a specific schema. It is installed into an Operations Manager management group and distributed to appropriate agents that use its contents to perform monitoring activities for a particular application.
The topics in this section provide an overview of general concepts required for building a management pack. These concepts are used in the remaining sections of this guide. (Topics to be completed.)
In Operations Manager, all hardware, software, services, and other logical components of different applications that require monitoring are described in a service model. A model is a computer-consumable representation of software or hardware components that captures the nature of the components and the relationships between them. It can be thought of as a simplified representation of the application for monitoring.
The topics in this section provide an overview of the key concepts that must be understood to perform this design, a basic process for designing a service model, and walkthroughs and examples of using different consoles to build the service model..