Deploy resource monitoring - Monitoring and Operating a Private Cloud - page 111

This section covers the following topics:
■ Managing management packs
■ Configuring synthetic transactions
■ Using Global Service Monitor
■ Application Performance Monitoring
■ Creating distributed application models
Managing management packs
Subject matter experts create Operations Manager management packs so that Operations
Manager will provide you with useful information about a particular application, service,
role, or device. However, while the experts who created the management pack know a large
amount about the subject of the management pack, they don't know anything about your
specific private cloud environment. Importing the management pack is only the first part of
the management pack's lifecycle. You also need to test, tune, and alter each management
pack so that it provides you with the information that you actually need to know to perform
your job.
MORE INFO MANAGEMENT PACK LIFECYCLE
You can learn more about the management pack lifecycle at http://technet.microsoft.com/
en-us/library/hh212732.aspx .
Microsoft describes the management pack lifecycle in the following manner:
■ Review and evaluate in pre-production environment Before deploying a man-
agement pack into your organization's production environment, you should evaluate
the management pack in a test or development environment.
■ Tune the management pack settings Use overrides to tune the management pack.
Save these overrides in a separate unsealed management pack.
■ Deploy the management packs into production environment When you do this,
you'll also import the separate, unsealed management packs that contained the over-
rides that you created in your test or development environment.
■ Maintain the management pack Once the management pack has been deployed,
you may still need to perform additional tuning. The following changes in circumstanc-
es should lead you to retune the management pack:
■ Changing business needs Your organizational requirements might change in terms
of the monitoring of the object that is the subject of the management pack. This may
necessitate reevaluating how the management pack has been tuned.
■ The environment changes For example, there is a change in computer hardware,
operating system, or virtual machine configuration that impacts the monitored object.