Category (Discovery)

Applies To: Operations Manager 2007 R2, System Center Operations Manager 2007

Represents the category name of a discovery.

Schema Hierarchy

<Category>Discovery</Category>

The following sections describe attributes, child elements, and the parent elements of the Category element.

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Element	Description
Rule	Defines a workflow used for stateless monitoring.
Discovery	Defines a workflow that returns discovery data for class and/or relationship type instances.
Task	Defines an on-demand workflow designed to be initiated by the user.
UnitMonitor	Defines a state machine that describes a list of states and how to detect them.
AggregateMonitor	Defines a state machine whose health state is determined by an algorithmic analysis of its children.
DependencyMonitor	Defines a state machine whose health state is determined by an algorithmic analysis of a hosting or containment relationship’s target instances.
Diagnostic	Defines a troubleshooting workflow that can instantiated based on state, a rule, or manually by the user.
Recovery	Defines a recovery workflow that can be instantiated based on state, a rule, or manually by the user.

The value for the Category element in a discovery is always “Discovery.”