by David Allen, This script is for use in a Operations Manager monitor and requires the DPM Server Name to be passed to it. For full details on how to use this script from the source, click Download at right.

by Kris Bash, this pack seems to cover the basics of web site availability and performance in a simple interface, including an all-important RETRY COUNT. Worth a look if you want web monitoring that is a bit more simply maintained.

The NiCE DB2 Management Pack for Microsoft System Center Operations Manager (SCOM) 2007 is the perfect solution to manage and monitor your DB2 database using the Microsoft System Center Operations Manager 2007.

This simple MP augments Essentials 2010 functionality by adding one-click magic packet delivery using a custom task. The pack includes a custom view and custom task each targeting the 'Network Adapter (Client)' class. Requires the free Depicus wake-on-LAN command line utility (wolcmd.exe) extracted to c:\tools. It also requires that wake-on-LAN functionality is available and enabled in your managed client computers.

Are you looking for a way to automate the process of closing out or changing the resolution state of various alerts? Do you have lots of SQL Job Failure alerts, or Script or Executable failed alerts which are not recurring but you want to avoid manually closing them every day (or hour?) The Scheduled Resolution Update Management Pack provides scheduled rules to auto-close or to change the resolution state based upon a periodic basis. These rules are designed to run daily, hourly, or weekly and to auto-close all alerts which have not been updated in the last hour, day, or all alerts which match the name specified. This management pack also can auto-change the resolution states of alert names which are specified on a daily, hourly or weekly basis.

This MP includes a report that allows tracking of who is using maintenance mode to disable monitoring and reports the maintenance start, end, comment, user id and reason code.

Management pack to monitor the performance of a HP EVA SAN. Provides disk group latency and controller CPU monitoring and alerting and performance collection.

The Top Processes Identifier Management Pack is designed to address a missing feature in Operations Manager 2007 - correlation between high resource utilization (CPU and memory) and running processes. The Top Processes Identifier Management Pack builds on Windows 2008 OS monitoring by using custom agent tasks to gather the processes running at the moment CPU or memory utilization spikes to a very high level, as measured by the unit monitors in the Windows 2008 Operating System Management Pack.

The System Up Time Monitoring Management Pack leverages the Windows ‘System Up Time’ performance counter and is designed to help System Administrators with monitoring and reporting on planned and unplanned system reboots. The reports show system up time as x day(s), x hour(s), x minute(s), x second(s). The System Up Time Monitoring Management Pack augments both the Windows Server Operating System Management Pack for Operations Manager 2007 and the Windows Client 2000/XP/Vista Operating System Management Pack for Operations Manager 2007.

Database Hygiene is greatly covered by Pete Zerger in his 6 part series on database hygiene. Why you should care and how it effects the functionality and performance of your (or your customers) SCOM environment. Most of the times it comes down to running SQL queries directly on the databases to gather this information. After gathering the information you can retrieve the information widely spread on the Internet and start tuning over enthusiastic rules and monitors to keep your environment nice and tidy. This Management Pack is written to make your life more easy!

Watches Event Rules created in the provided Management Pack and in case they would collect too many events, they will get disabled to prevent flooding of the Operations Manager DB

Extension to the SQL Server Management Pack for Operations Manager 2007 R2: Discover and monitor SQL Server Database Mirrors on SQL Server 2008.

The Windows Admin Tasks Management Pack is designed to augment the Windows Base OS Management Pack by adding a number of useful and powerful tasks to the console. To make this easy, the tasks are all targeted to the Microsoft.Windows.Computer (Windows Computer) class, so you can use the Windows Computer view in the Default MP, which is also near the top of View tree in the Monitoring space of the console. With that in mind, the tasks presented should work on about any OS that supports an OpsMgr agent.

The CSI integration into SCCM makes it possible to automate the process around 3rd party patching. Get the Extension pack here: http://secunia.com/vulnerability_scanning/corporate/

This management pack is designed to alert administrators to various changes in Active Directory related to users, groups, group policies (GPOs), OUs and physical topology (sites, site links and subnets). Care has been taken to avoid the use of wildcards on description fields for better performance

This management pack is an extension management pack the collects detailed logical disk data, has a task that analyzes logical disks and contains views and reports to consume all the information collected.

This management pack, which extends SQL monitoring to include identification of databases that have never been backed up, contains a script-based monitor, two views and a linked alert report that incorporates the class filter for the object picker.

Quest is now offiering their QMX VMware extension is now free for vCenter and vSphere. You do need to install the QMX Base Framework first. Go to the QMX for Quest page by clicking the Download links to get the QMX Base Framework and QMX VMware extension

Cisco Catalyst switch monitoring and management directly from System Center Operations Manager is a reality with the Cisco Catalyst 2950 Series Switch Management Pack. Monitor all critical components of any Cisco Catalyst 2950 Series switch including Interfaces, Memory, Processor, Fan and Power Supply. Absolutely no CLI or WMI is used to retrieve performance values from the switch. The Rules and Monitors are Native SCOM implementations and use SNMP to collect all performance and switch health data. Once the device has been discovered in SCOM, the Management Pack takes over and performs the specific switch discovery. After discovery, a native SNMP module is used within SCOM to collect values directly from the switch. You will never configure a login and password to access the switch. You will never have to import MIB files into WMI. All access performance data collection is through SCOM. Polling interval and thresholds can also be overridden in SCOM to provide a more tailor

This Management pack uses a custom counter created with Microsoft.Windows.TimedScript.PerformanceProvider module using System.Performance.ConsecutiveSamplecCondition to do number of samplesbefore alerting monitoring