Script Monitors
Applies To: System Center Operations Manager 2007
Note
This topic has been updated in the latest version of the System Center Management Pack Authoring Guide on the TechNet Wiki.
Script monitors run a monitoring script regularly and evaluate the results to determine the state of the monitor. The script could perform such actions as running a synthetic transaction against an application, gathering performance data to be evaluated against a threshold, or retrieving a status of some aspect of the application. Script monitors incur more overhead than the other types of monitors and should be used only when one of those monitors does not provide the required functionality.
Script monitors can use either two states or three states. Criteria must be defined for each state using values from the property bag created by the script. The kinds of values in the property bag will vary depending on the particular script. A numeric value might be compared to a threshold value as in a performance monitor. In that case, the healthy state might be defined by the value being under the threshold value while the critical state is defined by the value being over the same threshold. A synthetic transaction might return a text result indicating whether the test was successful or not. In that case, the criteria for each state would be the string indicating that particular health.
See Also
Tasks
How to create a monitor based on a script
How to create a monitor based on a Windows PowerShell script