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System Center Operations Manager LogoIn a SCOM Management Pack Custom Properties can be used for Alert Description and Notification as described in this blog by Kevin Holman.

In my case I wanted to add the Display Name and the Performance Counter Value in a Performance Threshold Monitor. In XML it would look this this:

But how to add these parameters when using the System Center 2012 Visual Studio Authoring Extensions?

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System Center Operations Manager LogoToday I encounterd what seems to be a bug in the System Center 2012 Visual Studio Authoring Extensions. I wanted to define a Performance Collection Rule that reads out the percentage of free memory from an SNMP device.

Since the device returns only the percentage of used memory I needed to use the ComputedPerfProvider provider to substract the used memory percentage from 100.

I could of course report used memory instead of free memory but I wanted the resulst to appear in the default SCOM Performance View, which only lists Free Memory:

System Center Operations Manager | Default Performance View

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System Center Operations Manager LogoI am currently working on a Management Pack for SCOM and I have studies a few examples on adding processor and memory counters.

These examples all reference a Management Pack named "System.NetworkManagement.Monitoring.mp" but this Management Pack is not bundled with the System Center 2012 Visual Studio Authoring Extensions.

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