Module 1: Designing and Building a Basic Management Pack

This module will cover the design and building of a basic management pack.

Lessons

• 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

After completing this module, students will be able to:

Module 2: Going from Basic to Professional

This module will build on the basic concepts to increase the efficiencies of a management pack.

Lessons

• 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

After completing this module, students will be able to:

Module 3: Advanced Implementation Strategies

This module will provide strategies for extending a management pack to support larger and more complex applications.

Lessons

• 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

After completing this module, students will be able to: