Category Overrides are implemented in both Operations Manager and Essentials. The overrides apply to all the current categories of rules and monitors (Operations, Maintenance, Availability, Performance, etc).
Rules and Monitors have an “Enabled” property that has five possible values: True, OnEssentialMonitoring, OnStandardMonitoring, OnAdvancedMonitoring, False. Rules/Monitors with the Enabled property set to TRUE have an effective enabled value of TRUE. Rules/Monitors with the Enabled property set to FALSE have an effective enabled value of FALSE. The effective Enabled value of rules/monitors with the Enabled property set to OnEssentialMonitoring, OnStandardMonitoring, and OnAdvancedMonitoring is determined by the category overrides that have been configured in Essentials and Operations Manager.
The category overrides in OpsMgr are set to “OnStandardMonitoring”. Rules/Monitors imported into OpsMgr with the Enabled property set to True, OnEssentialMonitoring and OnStandardMonitoring will have an effective Enabled value of True. Rules/Monitors imported into Essentials with the Enabled property set to OnAdvancedMonitoring and False will have an effective Enabled value of False.
The category overrides in Essentials are set to “OnEssentialsMonitoring”. Rules/Monitors imported into Essentials with the Enabled property set to True and OnEssentialMonitoring will have an effective Enabled value of True. Rules/Monitors imported into Essentials with the Enabled property set to OnStandardMonitoring, OnAdvancedMonitoring and False will have an effective Enabled value of False.
For example consider the following rule definitions.
This rule would be enabled in Operations Manager and Essentials:
<Rule ID="CollectEvent101" Target="ApplicationX" Enabled="true">
This rule would be enabled in Operations Manager and Essentials:
<Rule ID="CollectEvent101" Target="ApplicationX" Enabled="onEssentialMonitoring">
This rule would be enabled in Operatations Manager only:
<Rule ID="CollectEvent101" Target="ApplicationX" Enabled="onStandardMonitoring">
This rule would be disabled in Operations Manager and Essentials:
<Rule ID="CollectEvent101" Target="ApplicationX" Enabled="onAdvancedMonitoring">
This rule would be disabled in Operations Manager and Essentials:
<Rule ID="CollectEvent101" Target="ApplicationX" Enabled="false">
Note that category overrides are not exposed in the Operations Console in this version of the product.