Category (Task)

Applies To: System Center 2012 - Operations Manager, System Center 2012 R2 Operations Manager, System Center 2012 SP1 - Operations Manager

Represents the category name of a task.

Schema Hierarchy

ManagementPack
  Monitoring
    Tasks
      Task
        Category

Syntax

<Category>CategoryName</Category>

Attributes and Elements

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

Attributes

None.

Child Elements

None.

Parent Elements

Element Description

Rule

Defines a workflow that is 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.

Text Value

The category for a task must be one of the following names:

  • PerformanceCollection

  • Operations

  • EventCollection

  • StateCollection

  • SoftwareAndUpdates

  • Alert

  • Custom

  • AvailabilityHealth

  • PerformanceHealth

  • ConfigurationHealth

  • SecurityHealth

  • Notification

  • Maintenance

See Also

Reference

Rule