Hi All, I'm new to SCOM and after a couple of pointers in the right direction. I have my installation up and running with a couple of management packs up and running. I'm now upto creating custom management packs to monitor a couple of windows services. I've created the new management pack and add 4 monitors to look at 4 different custom services. I'm only really interested in the availability of the services but keen to learn more about the performance and behaviour of these services. Once created I am trying to create a state view that lists the 4 services in one viewing pane. I am able to create 4 seperate state views in the monitoring pane. How do i go about getting them setup so i have one view with the state of the 4 services listed? On ther performance monitors of these services, there is a memory and CPU setting. I do not know too much about the performance of these services but I would like to start baselining these services and monitoring against these figures. How do i go about starting to baseline these windows services. Thanks in advance

A great way to setup service monitoring with some basic performance monitoring built right in (CPU and memory) is to use the Windows Service Monitoring Template (Authoring space --> MP Templates, choose Windows Service once you launch the wizard). Here are a couple of blog posts that may shed some light on whats included. While these focus on the process monitoring template, you'll find some concepts here that apply to Windows Service Monitoring Templates as well. http://www.systemcentercentral.com/tabid/145/indexId/39451/Default.aspx http://www.systemcentercentral.com/BlogDetails/tabid/143/IndexID/73979/Default.aspx Pete Zerger, MVP-OpsMgr and SCE | http://www.systemcentercentral.com