Visual Studio Team System Management Model Designer Power Tool (TSMMD)

Patterns & Practices: TSMMD is a tool for modeling line-of-business health scenarios and the associated instrumentation. The tool includes guidance packages that generate platform instrumentation (called Instrumentation Helpers) and validators to confirm that application source code contains instrumentation defined in the Health Model. The tool can then be used to generate Management Packs for System Center Operations Manager 2008. Second is the Management Guide that contains prescriptive guidance on building highly manageable applications on the Microsoft Windows platform.