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Microsoft System Center 2012 R2 Operations Manager Cookbook

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Microsoft System Center 2012 R2 Operations Manager Cookbook

Overview of this book

Table of Contents (18 chapters)
Microsoft System Center 2012 R2 Operations Manager Cookbook
Credits
About the Authors
About the Reviewers
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
Index

Monitoring and capturing performance in MP Author


Another common need for a custom application is recording a performance counter for later viewing and monitoring the value of a counter. As an example in this recipe, we will be using the System Up Time counter, but please be aware that this is already captured in a standard pack. This recipe again builds on previous recipes, so please follow those first to acquire an understanding of how we got to this point.

Getting ready

Make sure that you have followed the previous recipes or their equivalent. This will provide you with a SCOM environment and MP Author already installed and available for use. We are building on the previous recipes for this example, but you should be able to follow this recipe for any future requirements.

How to do it...

To monitor and capture performance in MP Author, follow these steps:

  1. Open MP Author and the previous management pack if they are not already open.

  2. Because we are making a change, we should increase the management...