The Microsoft IT Service Bus for Windows Server Management Pack provides a new template to use with System Center Operations Manager 2012 R2 to monitor Service Bus for Windows Server

• Management Pack Template for Creating Service Bus for Windows Server Management Packs
• Securely Encrypts User/Pass for Service Bus Authentication
• Auto Discovers Service Bus Queues, Topics and Subscriptions
• Views for Alerts and Namespace, Queues, Topics and Subscriptions Health
• Monitors for Queues
  • Queue is Enabled
  • Acceptable Message Count in Queue
  • Acceptable Message Count in Dead Letter Queue
  • Old Messages in Queue
• Monitors for Topics
  • Topic is Enabled
  • Topic has Correct Number of Subscribers
• Monitors for Subscriptions
  • Subscription is Enabled
  • Acceptable Message Count in Subscription
  • Acceptable Message Count in Dead Letter Queue
  • Old Messages in Subscription

Please always test new management packs in a test environment before importing to production!

• System Center Operations Manager 2012 R2

1. Download the MPB by downloading a zip file of the code from by clicking the link Download Zip on the right of this web page. The MPB file will be located in the root of the extracted folder.
2. Import the management pack into SCOM
3. Create a Windows Run As Account and grant it "Manage Users" rights to the Service Bus namespace to be monitored
4. Create a new Microsoft IT Service Bus for Windows Server management pack using the Management Pack templates in the Authoring section of the SCOM 2012 R2 Console

• Visual Studio 2013
• System Center 2012 Visual Studio Authoring Extensions

1. Open the solution file
2. Open the Microsoft.IT.SCOM.SBWS Project's properties and on the Build tab either provide a key to seal the MP or uncheck "Generate sealed and signed management pack"
3. Open the Microsoft.IT.SCOM.SBWS.UI Project's properties and on the Build Events tab change the Post-Build event to copy to the Resources folder located in the Microsoft.IT.SCOM.SBWS project directory