Microsoft System Center Management Pack for Windows 8 and 8.1

Summary

The Microsoft Windows 8 and 8.1 OS Management Pack monitors the availability and performance of Windows 8 and 8.1 operating systems. By detecting, alerting, and automatically responding to critical events and performance indicators, this Management Pack helps identify, correct, and prevent possible Windows 8 and 8.1 related outages. As a result, this Management Pack can play an important role in ensuring that you are Windows 8 and 8.1 infrastructure and related components are available and working correctly.

By using embedded expertise, this Management Pack highlights performance, health, and availability conditions that indicate problems. It can in some cases even identify issues before they become critical thus providing you with a level of customer responsiveness that increases the overall availability and performance of your Windows 8 and 8.1 infrastructure and related components. As a result, this Management Pack will reduce the total cost of ownership (TOC) by enabling proactive management and reducing resolution times for the issues identified.

The Microsoft Windows 8 and 8.1 OS Management Pack includes the following features and capabilities:

Application Structure

A rich Application Structure is discovered by the Management pack. This Application Structure exposes the relationships between all Windows components and logical devices. For instance, the relationships between the Computer, Operating System, Logical Disks, Partitions, and Physical Disks can all be discovered and viewed from diagram and topology surfaces.

Monitors and Rules

A complete set of Monitors and Rules have been provided to monitor Windows services, components, and infrastructure. The Management Pack includes monitoring capabilities for:

• Service and Application Management

• Local Storage Management

• Performance Management

• Reliability Management

Tasks

A set of commonly used Tasks have been provided to assist in the diagnosis and remediation of issues that affect the availability, performance, and configuration of Window related services and components.

Knowledge

A complete set of Knowledge has been provided for all Monitors, Rules, and Discoveries. For Alert generating Monitors and Rules, you will find Knowledge that will help expedite resolution process. Where applicable Inline Tasks, Views, and Reports have been added to the Knowledge enable quick diagnostics and the fastest possible resolution.

Reports

A series of reports have been provided which will provide administrators with the ability to take a historical look at the Windows 8 environment.

Configuration

This Management Pack does not require any out of the box configuration. Overrides may be applied to features to modify the out of the box configuration (for example; enable/disable monitors and rules, change thresholds, etc).

Note: This Management Pack depends on the Microsoft System Center Operations Manager 2007 Management Pack for Windows 2000/XP/Vista/Windows 7/Windows 8 and 8.1 Library. As a result, this Management Packs must be imported during or after the import of the Microsoft System Center Operations Manager 2007 Management Pack for Windows 2000/XP/Vista/Windows 7/Windows 8 and 8.1 Library Management Pack.