Windows 8 Client Management Pack Guide

Windows 8 Client Management Pack Guide
ContentsSupported Configurations 6 Getting Started 6 Before You Import the Management Pack 6 Files in This Management Pack 6 How to Import Windows 8 Client Management Pack 7 Creating a New Management Pack for Customizations 7 Optional Configuration 8 Security Considerations 9 Low-Privilege Environments 9 Computer Groups 10 Understanding Management Pack Operations 11 Objects That the Management Pack Discovers 11 Classes 12 Key Monitoring Scenarios 13 Putting Monitored Objects into Maintenance Mode 14 Appendix 1: Rules and Monitors for Windows 8 Client Management Pack 14 Rules 14 Monitors 18 Appendix 2: Reports 21 Appendix 3: Known Issues and Troubleshooting 27 The Windows Client Management Pack provides proactive and reactive monitoring of Windows client computers in your environment. The Windows Client Management Pack monitors client computers that are running Windows 8. The management pack is designed to gather data about client computers, or to monitor specific mission-critical client computers in your organization. The data gathered by this management pack provides information that can signal an early warning to administrators about issues on client computers that could affect the users of those computers. The reports included in the management pack can help you identify trends or problems with disk utilization, memory health, and various areas of system performance.
Document VersionThis guide was written based on the 6.0.7251.0 version of the Windows Client Management Pack. Getting the Latest Management Pack and DocumentationYou can find the Windows Client Management Pack in System Center Operations Manager Catalog (http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkId=82105). Supported ConfigurationsWindows 8 Client Management Pack supports monitoring computers that are running Windows 8. Both 32-bit and 64-bit clients are supported. System Center Operations Manager 2012 or higher is supported. Getting StartedThis section describes the actions you should take before you import the management pack, any steps you should take after you import the management pack, and information about customizations. Before You Import the Management PackTwo types of client monitoring are available in this management pack: Aggregate client monitoring for gathering health information on the selected representative clients, and aggregating information for reports that display the trends Monitoring of mission-critical business clients
Note Agentless monitoring is not supported. Before you import the Windows Client Management Pack, perform the following actions: Ensure that Operations Manager 2012 or higher is installed, and then install the agent on every client that you want to monitor.
The download package includes the following files: Microsoft.Windows.Client.Win8.mp Microsoft.Windows.Client.Win8.Aggregate.mp Microsoft.Windows.Client.Win8.Monitoring.mp Microsoft.Windows.Client.Win8.BusinessCritical.xml Microsoft.Windows.Client.Library.mp EULA.rtf As a best practice, we recommend that you do not import management pack files that you do not plan to use.
Importing Windows 8 Client Management PackBefore importing Windows 8 Client Operating System Management Pack, ensure that all dependent libraries are imported, and then import the appropriate client management packs. You can import all of the necessary client management packs at one time. For information about importing management packs, see How to Import an Operations Manager Management Pack topic (http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkId=717831) in Operations Manager Help. Aggregate Client monitoring gathers health information from Windows 8 Client that have a client operating system management pack installed. This type of monitoring provides trending data for representative computers that you select for your purpose, and can be used to create reports that display trend information. If you are using this type of client monitoring, no additional setup or configuration is necessary. If you want to use Business Critical Client monitoring, you must add the computers that are designated as mission-critical to the Business Critical Client computer group. This group has several overrides that are targeted at the group members. These overrides enable individual monitoring and alerting so that these computers can be monitored in much the same way that a server is monitored. 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. For more information about Aggregate Client monitoring and Business Critical client monitoring, see Understanding Management Pack Operations section of this guide.
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