Creating and extending service monitors in Visual Studio

In previous recipes, we have showed how to discover an application, create some custom views, and how to deploy this pack automatically. We have also seen in other sections how to create a monitor for a specific service with other authoring tools. However, if you look at the following screenshot, you will see that there are different options under Service Name to monitor different computers. This recipe will show you how to set up a single service monitor in Visual Studio that will check for the appropriate service on the appropriate computer.

Creating and extending service monitors in Visual Studio

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As before, this recipe builds on the ...

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