App-V management pack for Operations Manager exposed
Since I've been working quite a bit with Operations Manager this last year and have tinkered with creating my own management pack for App-V (this of course before I heard that one would be released), I was pretty excited to get this imported into my OpsMgr at home and see how I faired with the setup of my VAS server in secure mode. Unfortunately, It came out too clean like the view you see below, so I decide to dump my installation and rebuild from scratch again to see how much red I can produce.
Well, I got what I wanted. After the re-install of the VAS and OpsMgr re-discovering it as an App-V server again, it looked bad, which is good. It showed the App-V server service not running, a configuration issue, the ACL's were not set for the new server cert I reissued.
Below you will see what makes up the health of an App-V server (lightweight or heavyweight) in this management pack. Hopefully more work is being done on this MP around adding canned reports since there are none, a distributed app would be nice so I don't have to make one, but more importantly, the performance monitoring specific to App-V.
Now to find out if the ConfigMgr 2007 management pack is planned to be revised to monitor the App-V integration on R2.