Building Manageable Apps: Health Modeling and Instrumentation

Management of many existing applications is a challenge because they were not designed with the administrator in mind. In many cases applications do not expose the right set of information because the developers did not know what the right set should be or because instrumentation was added as an afterthought. This makes diagnostics and troubleshooting very difficult for administrators and help desk personnel. Learn how to make your applications more manageable by applying the health model during the application design phase and by leveraging the "Longhorn" innovations in the Event Log, Task Scheduler, WMI and other instrumentation technologies. Also learn how to enable automatic problem detection, troubleshooting and resolution using health rules in MOM today and the new "Longhorn" Monitoring Service.

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