{"id":13016,"date":"2012-06-29T10:35:55","date_gmt":"2012-06-29T09:35:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/aidanfinn.com\/?p=13016"},"modified":"2012-06-29T10:35:55","modified_gmt":"2012-06-29T09:35:55","slug":"system-center-2012-visio-management-pack-designer-for-system-center-operations-manager","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/aidanfinn.com\/?p=13016","title":{"rendered":"System Center 2012 Visio Management Pack Designer for System Center Operations Manager"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Want to design your own simple management packs for SCOM (OpsMgr) from scratch but, like me, found the authoring kit to be like a mythical Greek maze filled with monsters?&#160; Well I have great news \u2026 the Visio Management Pack Designer (VMPD) is finally <a href=\"http:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/download\/details.aspx?id=30170\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>!!!!<\/p>\n<p>I <a href=\"https:\/\/aidanfinn.com\/?p=12418\" target=\"_blank\">blogged<\/a> about this tool at MMS earlier this year.&#160; You drag and drop what you want done, and it\u2019ll do all the hard work for you.&#160; It\u2019ll be a great addition to any OpsMgr admin\/consultant toolkit.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>The System Center 2012 Visio MP Designer\u2014VMPD\u2014is an add-in for Visio 2010 Premium that allows you to visually design a System Center Operations Manager Core Monitoring Management Pack. VMPD generates a Management Pack that is compliant to the MP Authoring Best Practices by simply dragging and dropping Visio shapes to describe your application architecture and configuring them through the Shape Properties.     <\/p>\n<p>&#8211; Visually describe your application architecture which generates classes and discoveries. <\/p>\n<p>&#8211; Visually add monitoring to create monitors and rules. <\/p>\n<p>&#8211; Start quickly from our pre-canned single server and multi-server patterns.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<div style=\"padding-bottom: 0px; margin: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; display: inline; float: none; padding-top: 0px\" id=\"scid:0767317B-992E-4b12-91E0-4F059A8CECA8:ac86dd16-6fe0-4d94-893d-36278e1dc4a9\" class=\"wlWriterEditableSmartContent\">Technorati Tags: <a href=\"http:\/\/technorati.com\/tags\/System+Center\" rel=\"tag\">System Center<\/a>,<a href=\"http:\/\/technorati.com\/tags\/Operations+Manager\" rel=\"tag\">Operations Manager<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Want to design your own simple management packs for SCOM (OpsMgr) from scratch but, like me, found the authoring kit to be like a mythical Greek maze filled with monsters?&#160; Well I have great news \u2026 the Visio Management Pack Designer (VMPD) is finally here!!!! I blogged about this tool at MMS earlier this year.&#160; &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/aidanfinn.com\/?p=13016\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;System Center 2012 Visio Management Pack Designer for System Center Operations Manager&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[30],"tags":[83,193],"class_list":["post-13016","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-opsmgr","tag-operations-manager","tag-system-center"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/aidanfinn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13016","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/aidanfinn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/aidanfinn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aidanfinn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aidanfinn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=13016"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/aidanfinn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13016\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/aidanfinn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=13016"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aidanfinn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=13016"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aidanfinn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=13016"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}