Understanding Management Pack Operations

Two types of client monitoring are available in this management pack: Aggregate Client monitoring and Business Critical Client monitoring. You can implement both types of client monitoring in your network environment.
Aggregate Client monitoring is supported for Windows 8 operating systems. Aggregate Client monitoring gathers health information for representative computers that you select, and uses the data to provide trending information in the reports. For example, an administrator might select computers that have a specific hardware configuration in order to receive performance trending data on one component of the hardware configuration. The information gathered through Aggregate Client monitoring is stored in the Operations Manager database and can be used to create reports that display trend information.
Business Critical Client monitoring is the most extensive monitoring available for Windows clients. This type of monitoring gathers health information about designated individual client computers. Like server monitoring, each client with this type of monitoring has individual monitors and alerts that an administrator can use to maintain a constant state of operational functionality. Use this type of monitoring for your mission-critical client computers. Mission-critical client computers are the client computers in your organization that must be available at all times, and must have a reliable and constant connection to the Operations Manager management server.
By default, Windows Client Operating System Management Pack discovers the following objects:
Operating systems
Logical disks
Network adapter
The following objects are not discovered by default, but they can be discovered if the object discoveries are enabled by using overrides.
Physical disks
Processor
Disk partitions
Note
For more information about using overrides, see How to Override a Rule or Monitor (https://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/hh212869.aspx).
Classes
The following tables describe the classes defined in this management pack.
Windows 8 Client
Name
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Base Class
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Description
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ID
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All Business Critical Windows 8 Client
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Microsoft.SystemCenter.ComputerGroup
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All Business Critical Windows 8 Client OS Computer Systems (alerting enabled)
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Microsoft.Windows.Client.Win8.BusinessCriticalClient.ComputerGroup
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Windows 8 Client Computer
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Microsoft.Windows.Client.Computer
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All instances of computers running Windows 8 Client operating system.
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Microsoft.Windows.Client.Win8.Computer
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Windows 8 Client Computer Group
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Microsoft.SystemCenter.ComputerGroup
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A group containing all computers that are running a Windows 8 Client version of the Windows operating system.
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Microsoft.Windows.Client.Win8.ComputerGroup
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Windows 8 Client Disk Partition
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Disk Partition (Client)
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All instances of a disk partition on a Windows 8 Client operating system.
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Microsoft.Windows.Client.Win8.DiskPartition
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Windows 8 Client Logical Disk
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Logical Disk (Client)
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All instances of a logical disk on a Windows 8 Client operating system.
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Microsoft.Windows.Client.Win8.LogicalDisk
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Windows 8 Client Network Adapter
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Network Adapter (Client)
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All instances of a network adapter on a Windows 8 Client operating system.
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Microsoft.Windows.Client.Win8.NetworkAdapter
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Windows 8 Client Operating System
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Microsoft.Windows.Client.OperatingSystem
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All instances of Windows 8 Client operating system.
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Microsoft.Windows.Client.Win8.OperatingSystem
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Windows 8 Client Physical Disk
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Physical Disk (Client)
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All instances of a physical disk on a Windows 8 Client operating system.
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Microsoft.Windows.Client.Win8.PhysicalDisk
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Windows 8 Client Processor
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Processor (Client)
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All instances of a processor on a Windows 8 Client operating system.
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Microsoft.Windows.Client.Win8.Processor
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Windows 8 Client Aggregate
Name
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Base Class
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Description
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ID
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Windows 8 Client Aggregate Computer
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Windows 8 Client Computer
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A computer running the Microsoft Windows 8 operating system
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Microsoft.Windows.Client.Win8.Aggregate.Computer
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Windows 8 Client Aggregate Logical Disk
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Windows 8 Client Logical Disk
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A logical volume in a computer running the Microsoft Windows 8 operating system
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Microsoft.Windows.Client.Win8.Aggregate.LogicalDisk
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Windows 8 Client Aggregate Physical DIMM
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Microsoft.Windows.LogicalDevice
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A memory DIMM in a computer running the Microsoft Windows 8 operating system
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Microsoft.Windows.Client.Win8.Aggregate.PhysicalDIMM
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Windows 8 Client Aggregate Physical Disk
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Windows 8 Client Physical Disk
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A hard drive in a computer running the Microsoft Windows 8 operating system
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Microsoft.Windows.Client.Win8.Aggregate.PhysicalDisk
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Key Monitoring Scenarios Client Monitoring
The client operating system management packs are designed to monitor issues that occur on clients in your network as a whole, and also on individual mission-critical clients.
Aggregate Client Monitoring
Aggregate Client monitoring gathers and stores information about client computers. It does not monitor individual computers, nor does it generate alerts.
The information gathered through Aggregate Client monitoring is stored in the Operations Manager database. The information includes basic inventory information, such as operating system version, applied service pack, installed updates, and installed hardware.
Business Critical Client Monitoring
Business Critical monitoring is the most comprehensive monitoring available for Windows clients. This is the only type of monitoring that monitors client computers individually, and that can generate alerts.
To implement Business Critical monitoring on a client computer, you must have an agent installed on that client computer, and the correct client management pack imported on the management server. Then, you must manually move the client computer to Business Critical Client computer group. This group is the target of an override that enables all the monitors and alerts that are included in the client operating system management pack, and that are required to closely monitor the health of the client.
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