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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

Creating a custom view


In order to display our newly discovered attribute, the easiest way is to create a custom state view. This will allow us to choose the information we wish to show and control how best to display it.

Getting ready

As creating a management pack in the Operations console automatically creates a folder ready for custom views like this, we already have everything we need to get going.

How to do it...

  1. Open the SCOM console.

  2. Navigate to Monitoring | Monitoring | My Company Build Information.

  3. Right-click on the folder and select New | State View.

  4. Enter Build Information in the Name field.

  5. Click on the ellipses next to the object in the Show data related to: field and choose the Company Build Information class. Click on OK and then Yes in the confirmation box.

  6. Click on the Display tab and choose the attributes to display. I have chosen IP Address from the Windows Computer class and Build Version from our new class.

  7. Click on OK to create the view and wait a few moments for that view to...