Launch the Operations console and navigate to the Authoring space.

Right-click on the Management Pack Templates sub-tree and select Add monitoring wizard..., as we previously showed in Figure 18.3.

The screen shown in Figure 18.23 is displayed. From this screen, select TCP Port and click Next.

Figure 18.23. Selecting the TCP port in the Add Monitoring wizard.

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On the following screen, input the name and a description for the synthetic transaction and select the management pack you will save the transaction rules to. For this example, we will call the transaction OpsMgr Management Server Port Monitor and we will select the Sample management pack we have already used in this book. Click Next to continue.

The next screen is the Enter and Test Port Settings screen. Enter the TCP Port and IP Address or device name for the object and port you wish to test. Because we are monitoring the OpsMgr port on the management server, we will configure the device to be HYDRA.ODYSSEY.COM and configure the port as 5723. Type these values into the boxes.

Of course, in your environment you would input any server or network device’s IP address or DNS name, and the appropriate port to monitor. Click the Test button to validate the port. Figure 18.24 shows the completed screen. Click Next to continue.

Figure 18.24. Entering and testing settings for the TCP port.

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The following screen is the Choose Watcher Nodes screen, where the computer initiating the test is selected and configured. The screen lists all computers running OpsMgr agents, and you can tick the checkboxes to carry out the test on the computers you choose. In our example, we will run the test from the PANTHEON.ODYSSEY.COM machine. We will also configure the test to run every five (5) minutes instead of the default setting of two (2) minutes. You can refer to Figure 18.6 for an example of the Watcher Node screen. Click Next, and you will continue to the final screen of the Add Monitoring wizard.

The final screen summarizes the information you have inputted throughout the wizard. Click Create to complete creating the TCP port synthetic transaction. Figure 18.25 displays the summary screen.

Figure 18.25. TCP Port wizard summary screen.

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