This course is intended for developers and IT professionals responsible for designing and authoring management packs for Operations Manager 2007.

• Design a scalable management pack supporting a variety of application structures.
• Define an appropriate health facade for centrally managing a product or application.
• Understand and implement the Operations Manager concept of discovery.
• Define monitoring requirements on a variety of aspects of service availability and health.
• Implement these requirements in a management pack.
• Provide application administrators with information in a manner that lowers the ownership cost of the product or application.
• Demonstrate a mastery of management pack development.

Module 1: Designing and Building a Basic Management Pack

• Getting Manageability Right
• Fast Fly-Through
• Planning Your MP
• Implementing the Facade
• Discovery
• Implementing Monitoring
• Composition
• Reporting

Lab : Facade

• Create initial management pack
• Define and build high level classes

Lab : Discovery

• Discover instances of defined classes
• Implement bottom up discovery

Lab : Monitoring

• Create basic rules and monitors

Lab : Consolidation

• Add consolidation and suppression to existing rules
• Expose overrides
• Create data source modules and compose a workflow

Lab : Reporting

• Add a linked report to a management pack

Module 2: Going from Basic to Professional

• Taking control of discoveries
• Responding to state changes
• Interacting with the operator
• Minimizing the noise
• Advanced knowledge

Lab : Discoveries

• Create a discovery in response to an event
• Use multiple discoveries for a single class
• Create snapshot and incremental discoveries

Lab : Diagnostics and Recoveries

• Add a diagnostic and recovery to a monitor

Lab : Views and Tasks

• Create a complex view
• Create a task

Lab : Alert Suppression

• Define suppression for an alert rule to increment repeat count
• Use synthetic transactions to perform automatic reset and triangulation

Module 3: Advanced Implementation Strategies

• Distributed monitoring
• Troubleshooting discoveries
• Scenario based deployment
• Management large instance spaces
• Testing your management pack

Lab : Distributed Monitoring

• Design a roll-up model for an application distributed across multiple locations
• Control alert generation using dependency monitors

Lab : Troubleshooting Discoveries

• Troubleshoot broken discoveries

Lab : Managing Large Instance Spaces

• Selectively choose instances to discover
• Modify a script to support cookdown
• Control the number of running workflows