System Center 2012 R2 Operations Manager (SCOM) is a powerful tool for monitoring and alerting against any IT environment. So far, we have looked at how to tune existing monitoring to the appropriate levels for your environment. However, there may be other information that you wish to gather or additional items of interest that you wish to monitor and alert, that are specific to your environment.

This chapter will delve deeper into the ways in which you can produce customized discoveries and monitors that will allow you to fully implement the appropriate monitoring for your environment. The recipes will also show some of the advantages and disadvantages of the different authoring tools to help you decide on the best tool for you.

No book can realistically expect to be able to cover all individual monitoring needs, but following these recipes to begin with and then adapting them to your requirements should give you the monitoring you require and also the skills to create other...