Monitoring in Operations Manager 2007 is based around the concept of workflows.  An Operations Manager agent and server will run many workflows simultaneously in order to discover and monitor applications, devices and services. While the basic MP author does not need to understand the concept of a workflow, it is very useful to the more advanced MP author to understand what is going on under the covers. This section provides the basics of workflows as they are used in Operations Manager.

In this section I cover the following:

 

Module Types - Module types are the building blocks of Operations Manager workflows.  Every module type acts in one of four roles.  Find out the semantics of each here.

 

Workflow Types - There are different types of workflows available in Operations Manager such as rules, tasks, discoveries etc.  Find out what each one does here.

 

Cookdown - This is a concept that is particularly important to the author who is using lots of scripts.  Understanding how modules are cooked down by our engine will enable you to write more performant MPs.

 

Data Types - Modules pass data between each other.  This data is of a specific type and only modules with compatible types can be connected together in workflows.  Find out about these types here.