I will be starting a blog series, which will include step by step examples of these fragments, and how to use them. What if I told you, in a few *minutes*, you could write a full Management Pack, that discovered an application dynamically, created views for the app, monitored for events and performance, monitored key services, and could even run your custom scripts against the app using VBScript or PowerShell? If you can do a FIND and REPLACE in notepad, you can use this. I am presenting an MP fragment library for you to download, and a simple methodology to add fragments to a MP you wish to create. Nobody came up with a VERY simple method to reuse fragments quickly and easily.Nobody provided a good “library” of workable MP fragments.Several authors have written about the power of fragments since VSAE launched, but the biggest gap I saw can be broken up into two major issues: The most powerful part of VSAE to me, is the ability to use Management Pack fragments.Ī Management Pack fragment is simply a bit of XML, that contains all the “working parts” for a specific workflow…. I have been presenting a different method on using VSAE with my customers and it has resonated very well. I find customers rarely use Visual Studio for authoring because of this. Even with experience, I find adding certain module types VERY cumbersome to use. The challenge with VSAE is unless you come from a developer background using Visual Studio, or you write management packs all day for a living, most people find it VERY daunting to use. Visual Studio has a powerful plugin called VSAE (Visual Studio Authoring Extensions) But they don’t have a wizard for all scenarios, and they don’t offer a way to update the workflows using the same UI that created them, so you are back to XML at that point. Silect’s MPAuthor ( ) has stepped up in a big way to fill some of these gaps, and they have done a fantastic job of creating wizards that spit out MP’s that are useful, and relatively easy to author. And moving into SCOM 2012, now that the schema changed, using it becomes VERY challenging to update your existing MP’s. Once you learned the quirks, it was pretty good when you needed to make complex MP’s. I’d argue the most powerful tool over the years that was “somewhat” user friendly was the SCOM 2007R2 authoring console. The SCOM UI Authoring tab, Notepad, XML Notepad, Notepad++, SCOM 2007R2 Authoring Console, Silect MP Author, and Visual Studio. Over the years, there have been many tools that we have used to write MP’s.
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