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You can use Microsoft System Center Operations Manager (SCOM) to monitor the state of VMware View
components, including View Connection Server instances and security servers and View services running on
these hosts.
This chapter includes the following topics:
“View Management Packs” on page 55
“Name a View Connection Server Group” on page 56
“Import the View MPs” on page 56
“View Discovery Script” on page 56
“Run the Discovery Script” on page 57
“Display Discovered Objects” on page 57
“Display Managed Objects” on page 58
“Views and Monitors” on page 58
“Enable a Proxy Agent on a Server on page 60
“Display Performance Data” on page 60
“Display Information About an Alert” on page 60
“Restart a Service” on page 60
“Exclude a Domain from Connectivity Monitoring” on page 60
“Close Alerts” on page 61
“Class and Relationship Definitions” on page 61
View Management Packs
The View management packs (MPs) require the default System MP that is installed with Microsoft SCOM and
the MP for Microsoft Windows Server Base OS System Center Operations Manager 2007.
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View.Discovery.mp contains the agent that discovers instances of View Server installations. See “View
Discovery Script” on page 56.
VMware.View.Monitoring.mp contains the views and monitors that you can use with View in the
Operations Manager console. See “Views and Monitors” on page 58.
Integrating with SCOM
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