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Category (DependencyMonitor)

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

Represents the category name of an aggregate monitor.

Schema Hierarchy

ManagementPack
  Monitoring
    Monitors
      DependencyMonitor
        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 an implementation of a unit monitor type definition that determines the health of targeted class type instances.

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 be instantiated based on the state, a rule, or manually by the user.

Recovery

Defines a recovery workflow that can be instantiated based on the state, a rule, or manually by the user.

Text Value

The category for a dependency monitor should reflect the base aggregate monitor to which it rolls up (System.Health.AvailabilityState, System.Health.PerformanceState, System.Health.ConfigurationState, System.Health.SecurityState). The category name can be one of the following:

  • AvailabilityHealth

  • PerformanceHealth

  • ConfigurationHealth

  • SecurityHealth

See Also

Reference

AggregateMonitor