Creating a New Management Pack for Customizations

Creating a New Management Pack for Customizations

Creating a new management pack for storing overrides has the following advantages:

 It simplifies the process of exporting customizations that were created in your test and preproduction environments to your production environment. For example, instead of exporting a default management pack that contains customizations from multiple management packs, you can export just the management pack that contains customizations of a single management pack.

 It allows you to delete the original management pack without first having to delete the default management pack. A management pack that contains customizations is dependent on the original management pack. This dependency requires you to delete the management pack with customizations before you can delete the original management pack. If you customized multiple management packs and saved the customizations in the default management pack, then you will lose the customizations for all of your management packs.

 It simplifies the process of tracking and updating customizations to individual management packs.

For more information about sealed and unsealed management packs, see Sealed Management Pack Files (https://technet.microsoft.com/en-US/library/hh457596.aspx). For more information about management pack customizations and the default management pack, see Selecting a Management Pack File (https://technet.microsoft.com/en-US/library/hh457560.aspx).

Optional Configuration

Business Critical monitoring raises aggregated alerts when there is a substantial week-over-week increase in the number of problems detected. You can change the alerting levels for the management pack by overriding the alert rules. For more information and for instructions on how to override a rule, see How to Override a Rule or Monitor (https://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/hh212869.aspx).

The management pack does not raise alerts for minor degradations in the health of individual computers. To examine the health of individual computers, use the computer’s health explorer.

The reports use aggregations in the reporting server to optimize the reports rendering. For descriptions of the reports contained in this management pack, see Appendix: Reports.

In the Windows 8 management pack, the items in the following list are disabled by default. You can enable the items for an individual Windows 8 computer by adding the computer to All Business Critical Windows 8 Client group.

 Performance data collection

 Event collection

 Alerts generated by rules

 Alerts generated by monitors

Security Considerations

If you operate in a low-privilege computing environment, you might have to modify the level of permissions that are assigned to the accounts you use to run management pack rules, monitors, discoveries, recoveries, and diagnostic tasks. These accounts must have minimum permissions for management pack components in order to run properly.

Low-Privilege Environments

Low-privilege Environments and the Agent Action Account

You can use a low-privilege account for the agent action account, although a number of rules and monitors require elevated privileges.

Discoveries and Monitors Configured to Use the Privileged Monitoring Account Run As Profile

The following table lists the object discoveries and monitors that are configured by default to use the Privileged Monitoring Account Run As profile, which defaults to Local System and does not require association with any Run As account or target computer. As a result, no user intervention is required for these object discoveries and monitors that must use a high-privilege account.

Note

You can change the default action account by changing the agent action account associated with Privileged Monitoring Account Run As profile.

If your requirements stipulate that only a low-privilege account should be used in your environment, use overrides to disable the monitor and object discoveries for the appropriate operating systems listed in the table.

For more information and for instructions about how to use overrides, see How to Override a Rule or Monitor (https://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/hh212869.aspx).

Operating System and Monitor Type	Discovery or Monitor
Windows 8	Discover Windows Physical Disks
Windows 8	Discover Windows Logical Disks
Windows 8	Logical Disk Availability Health
Windows 8	Computer Browser Service Health
Windows 8 Aggregate Client monitoring	Discover Windows Physical Disk
Windows 8 Aggregate Client monitoring	Discover Windows Computer
Windows 8 Aggregate Client monitoring	Discover Operating System
Windows 8 Aggregate Client monitoring	Discover Windows Logical Disk System Drive
Windows 8 Aggregate Client monitoring	Discover Windows Logical Disk
Windows 8 Aggregate Client monitoring	Discover Windows Physical DIMM Disk
Windows 8 Aggregate Client monitoring	Discover Windows Physical Disk
Windows 8 Aggregate Client monitoring	Rules that access the event log
Windows 8 Aggregate Client monitoring	All unit monitors

Using Roles

In order to use Aggregate Client monitoring to monitor Windows 8 Clients in your environment, you must be assigned the Operator role in the Operations Manager. You must be assigned the Administrator role in the Operations Manager in order to use Business Critical Client monitoring. For more information about the types of client monitoring available in the Operations Manager, see Understanding Management Pack Operations section of this guide.

Computer Groups

When imported, each individual client management pack creates a corresponding computer group. For example, when you install Windows 8 Operating Systems Management Pack, a Windows 8 computer group is created.

The following groups are defined in this management pack:

 All Business Critical Windows 8 Client

Windows 8 Client Computer Group

Note

Computer groups are populated by discovery rules that are located in each client management pack. If you receive an error message when you try to view the properties of a computer group, ensure that you installed the management pack that contains the discovery rules for the computer group.

The following table lists the management packs that contains the discovery rules for each computer group.

Computer group	Management pack
All Business Critical Windows 8 Client	Microsoft.Windows.Client.Win8.mp
Windows 8 Client Computer Group	Microsoft.Windows.Client.Win8.mp

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