Visio Management Pack Designer
The Visio Management Pack Designer (VMPD) is an add-in for Microsoft Visio 2010 that allows you to create a management pack using graphical shapes. You can create a custom model representing your application based on a set of common patterns. Standard monitoring scenarios can be added to the model by simply setting properties on shapes that are added to the diagram. You can use the VMPD to create a complete management pack for an application with basic monitoring requirements or use it as a starting point for a management pack that can be edited using other tools.
Specific characteristics of the Visio Management Pack Designer include the following:
- Graphical tool that allows you to create sophisticated management packs while requiring minimal knowledge of the models and monitoring being created.
- Create new classes representing your application that cannot be created in the Operations console.
- Creates predefined monitoring scenarios. Cannot create custom monitoring scenarios.
- Generate a management pack file that can be installed in a management group or used as a starting point for additional modification using other authoring tools.
- Cannot import the management pack back into Visio once it has been generated.
- Creates or changes a management pack on disk without requiring access to the management group.
The tool isn't available yet - http://social.technet.microsoft.com/wiki/contents/articles/5235.aspx
