Understanding and Deploying Management Packs

The purpose of the chapter is to discuss the underlying components that make up a management pack and how to work with each of these. One should have a clear understanding of how rule groups correlate to computer groups and what determines membership in a computer group. This knowledge assists you when creating your own custom management packs. The chapter focuses on other ancillary management pack components—such as views, tasks, and providers—and explains how each of these can be used. The chapter provides a baseline of knowledge about management packs to help one build on this when exploring specific management packs, such as Exchange, Active Directory, Structured Query Language (SQL), and OEM-specific MP.