AuthorMPs

This blog is focused on authoring concepts and samples for System Center Operations Manager (SCOM). This is the replacement for www.authormps.com.

Microsoft iSCSI Target 3.3 Released

So this is not a normal topic for this blog. I will be back soon with some more content but things...

Author: Steve Wilson [MSFT] Date: 04/05/2011

Your MP Discoveries and Clustering

This is one of a few posts I will likely do on monitoring applications running on clusters using...

Author: Steve Wilson [MSFT] Date: 03/13/2011

Decentralizing Monitoring Configuration

SCOM provides rich override capabilities from the console so authorized users can override...

Author: Steve Wilson [MSFT] Date: 03/11/2011

Installation of Authoring Resource Kit on .Net 4.0

If you are using the Authoring Console and are having problems trying to install it if you only have...

Author: Steve Wilson [MSFT] Date: 03/10/2011

Visualizing the MP Schema

Did you know you can use any edition of Visual Studio to easily visualize and walk through the MP...

Author: Steve Wilson [MSFT] Date: 03/08/2011

State Based Vs. Stateless monitoring

This is more of a philosophical post I wanted to write based on some recent conversations I have had...

Author: Steve Wilson [MSFT] Date: 03/07/2011

Seed Based Discovery Concepts

Seed based discovery is a reasonably common concept that is used in many Microsoft MPs. There are a...

Author: Steve Wilson [MSFT] Date: 02/25/2011

Management Pack Schema

As I was moving content over from the old authormps, I was reviewing all the old schema...

Author: Steve Wilson [MSFT] Date: 02/24/2011

Workflow Types

In MOM 2005 things were fairly straight forward. You had the concept of rules, tasks and responses....

Author: Steve Wilson [MSFT] Date: 02/24/2011

Module Type Semantics

This is a quick summary of the different module types available in Operations Manager. Again nothing...

Author: Steve Wilson [MSFT] Date: 02/24/2011

Composite Write Action

This tutorial shows some composition basics and uses a write action that we will use in a task to...

Author: Steve Wilson [MSFT] Date: 02/24/2011

Using Abstract Classes

A very quick run through of how and why to use an abstract class when building management packs....

Author: Steve Wilson [MSFT] Date: 02/24/2011

Basic Monitors

To go with the basic rule MP here is the basic monitor MP. Again nothing new, just good XML...

Author: Steve Wilson [MSFT] Date: 02/24/2011

Basic Collection and Alerting Rules

This is a collection of basic collection rules and alert generating rules from a number of different...

Author: Steve Wilson [MSFT] Date: 02/24/2011

Discovery Samples

This is a nice collection of discovery samples - again very old but should still work. The zip file...

Author: Steve Wilson [MSFT] Date: 02/24/2011

Your First MP in XML

This is a very old tutorial I wrote that is a good first step into the intricacies of XML authoring...

Author: Steve Wilson [MSFT] Date: 02/24/2011

Consolidation / Composition Tutorial

Another old favorite topic I get asked about quite a lot. This tutorial covers two concepts and ties...

Author: Steve Wilson [MSFT] Date: 02/24/2011

Property Bags and Multi Instance Monitoring

Another old tutorial I wrote. This tutorial and sample MP shows you the right and wrong way to go...

Author: Steve Wilson [MSFT] Date: 02/24/2011

OLEDB Based Monitoring

OK first real post on this new blog. This is a set of tutorials and sample MPs I wrote a while back....

Author: Steve Wilson [MSFT] Date: 02/24/2011

New blog

This blog is going to be the replacement for www.authormps.com.  Maintaining this site is quite...

Author: Steve Wilson [MSFT] Date: 02/24/2011