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Microsoft.LS.2019.Discovery.WatcherNode.SyhnteticTransaction (Discovery)

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Summary

This discovers instances of Synthetic Transaction Watcher Node class. An administrator needs to designate a server as a Synthetic Transaction Watcher node by installing Skype for Business Server 2019, Watcher Node.

Additional steps are required to configure the Synthetic Transaction Watcher node (for example: this server needs to be have a Trusted Server Entry (TSE) in the product). Please refer to Management Pack deployment guide for how to configure a Synthetic Transaction Watcher node.

Once configured, synthetic transactions will execute on a periodic basis from this server automatically and report health status into SCOM.

Element properties:

TargetMicrosoft.Windows.Server.Computer
EnabledTrue
Frequency14400
RemotableFalse

Object Discovery Details:

Discovered Classes and their attribuets:

Member Modules:

ID Module Type TypeId RunAs 
DS DataSource Microsoft.Windows.FilteredRegistryDiscoveryProvider Default

Source Code:

<Discovery ID="Microsoft.LS.2019.Discovery.WatcherNode.SyhnteticTransaction" Enabled="true" Target="Windows!Microsoft.Windows.Server.Computer" ConfirmDelivery="false" Remotable="true" Priority="Normal">

  <Category>Discovery</Category>

  <DiscoveryTypes>

    <DiscoveryClass TypeID="Microsoft.LS.2019.WatcherNode.RemoteWatcher.SyntheticTransaction"/>

  </DiscoveryTypes>

  <DataSource ID="DS" TypeID="Windows!Microsoft.Windows.FilteredRegistryDiscoveryProvider">

    <ComputerName>$Target/Property[Type="Windows!Microsoft.Windows.Computer"]/NetworkName$</ComputerName>

    <RegistryAttributeDefinitions>

      <RegistryAttributeDefinition>

        <AttributeName>Role</AttributeName>

        <Path>Software\Microsoft\Real-Time Communications\{02C2BC83-EDDE-458C-B1DA-E7FDA6A4681B}</Path>

        <PathType>0</PathType>

        <AttributeType>0</AttributeType>

      </RegistryAttributeDefinition>

      <RegistryAttributeDefinition>

        <AttributeName>AuthType</AttributeName>

        <Path>Software\Microsoft\Real-Time Communications\Health\AuthType</Path>

        <PathType>1</PathType>

        <AttributeType>1</AttributeType>

      </RegistryAttributeDefinition>

      <RegistryAttributeDefinition>

        <AttributeName>Version</AttributeName>

        <Path>Software\Microsoft\Real-Time Communications\{02C2BC83-EDDE-458C-B1DA-E7FDA6A4681B}\Version</Path>

        <PathType>1</PathType>

        <AttributeType>1</AttributeType>

      </RegistryAttributeDefinition>

    </RegistryAttributeDefinitions>

    <Frequency>14400</Frequency>

    <ClassId>$MPElement[Name="Microsoft.LS.2019.WatcherNode.RemoteWatcher.SyntheticTransaction"]$</ClassId>

    <InstanceSettings>

      <Settings>

        <Setting>

          <Name>$MPElement[Name="Windows!Microsoft.Windows.Computer"]/PrincipalName$</Name>

          <Value>$Target/Property[Type="Windows!Microsoft.Windows.Computer"]/PrincipalName$</Value>

        </Setting>

        <Setting>

          <Name>$MPElement[Name="System!System.Entity"]/DisplayName$</Name>

          <Value>Skype for Business Server 2019 Synthetic Transaction Watcher Node</Value>

        </Setting>

        <Setting>

          <Name>$MPElement[Name="Microsoft.LS.2019.WatcherNode.RemoteWatcher.SyntheticTransaction"]/AuthType$</Name>

          <Value>$Data/Values/AuthType$</Value>

        </Setting>

      </Settings>

    </InstanceSettings>

    <Expression>

      <And>

        <Expression>

          <SimpleExpression>

            <ValueExpression>

              <XPathQuery Type="Boolean">Values/Role</XPathQuery>

            </ValueExpression>

            <Operator>Equal</Operator>

            <ValueExpression>

              <Value Type="Boolean">true</Value>

            </ValueExpression>

          </SimpleExpression>

        </Expression>

        <Expression>

          <RegExExpression>

            <ValueExpression>

              <XPathQuery Type="String">Values/Version</XPathQuery>

            </ValueExpression>

            <Operator>MatchesRegularExpression</Operator>

            <Pattern>^7</Pattern>

          </RegExExpression>

        </Expression>

      </And>

    </Expression>

  </DataSource>

</Discovery>