Consider this your at-a-glance cheat sheet for the official Community Management Pack Catalog here at SCC. This collection of more than 45 management packs from community sources, listed in alphabetical order. You can also find the System Center Pack Catalog on PinPoint by clicking HERE.

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Last update: February 28th, 2010

Management Pack	Description
Advanced Cisco Monitoring MP	by Kris Bash, this MP provides advanced Cisco device monitoring functionality in a free management pack for Operations Manager 2007 R2. The pack includes an extensive set of rules , monitors and views.
Adobe FMS MP	by Raphael Burri, The Adobe Flash Media Server management pack monitors the health of Adobe?s FMS 2 and 3, installed on Windows Computers. It provides discovery, availability, performance collection rules, performance reports and FMS related tasks.
AD Integration Demo	by Raphael Burri, The AD Integration Demo management pack overcomes LDAP query constraints and automates implementation of a workaround for per-OU targeting of agent assignment in AD Integration.
AD Integration RunAs Alert Supression	by Raphael Burri, The AD Integration RunAs Alert Suppression MP implements a workaround to eliminate misleading RunAs alerts when implementing AD Integration for Operations Manager 2007.
Agent Availability (Grays not in MM)	by Aengus Moran, Monitor for Gray Agents that are not in maintenance mode. Alert identifies agents and agent count.The alert identifies the specific agents.Readme is included with the zip download. All comments welcome, please post below.
Alert Forwarding MP	from Ron Williams, this sample MP provides a right-click ability to forward an alert to someone via email.
Backup Unsealed Management Packs	by Neale Brown, Derek Harkin and Pete Zerger, this MP performs nightly backup of unsealed MPs to a folder on the Management Serverusing an embedded Powershell script, as well as a version?archive of X days previous backups as defined by the user. User configurable settings are?exposed as overridable parameters in the?timed?event rule executing the script.?This is an great update to version 1.0 by Derek Harkin. How-to and screenshots for this MP are available HERE.
Cisco Catalyst 2950 Series Switch Management Pack from JAXMP	by Stefan Fuller, this MP provides 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.
Cisco Router Sample MP	by Scott Vintinner, this simple "proof-of-concept" management pack to monitor some of my Cisco routers. The MP is configured to discover a Cisco 2600, 2800, and 2801 router. Currently it will monitor up to 4 interfaces for up/down port status, errors and incoming/outgoing bps. Detailed description HERE.
Cisco Advanced MP	by Kris Bash, this MP provides advanced Cisco device monitoring functionality in a free management pack for Operations Manager 2007 R2. The pack includes an extensive set of rules , monitors and views. Detailed description HERE.
Coffee Management Pack	Coretech Coffee Management Pack is the perfect management pack for the soho environment. Check the level of your coffee pot.
Covestic PowerShell Tools Management Pack	Covestic released a sample PowerShell utility management pack with discoveries and useful tasks.
DNS Check MP	from SCF (Neale Brown), This MP uses a 3rd party DLL to check the response of a DNS server. This can be used to check the availability of external DNS servers.
eXc Dynamic Map	Allows creation of geographic topology map for monitored resources in Operations Manager.
Dynamic Distributed Application Model Sample MP	by Raphael Burri, this nicely commented sample management pack demonstrates how to construct complex formulas for dynamically populated Distributed Application Model component groups in OpsMgr 2007. In Raphael's example, the population formula for the component group in the sample DAD model checks to make sure that the objects included in the component group are also a member of a group
Extended Active Directory MP	by Matt Goedtel(MS), this management pack augments the existing Active Directory management pack by monitoring the following specific components and subsystems that Active Directory relies on, which are not captured in the current version, including issues with site boundaries, time synchronization and FRS-related issues.
File System Management Pack	by Jaime Correia, this was the winner of the System Center Solutions Contest from the System Center User Group. Created in parts 1 and 2 of our Scripting Series, this sample MP contains a variety of file system monitoring rules, including monitoring for the presence or absence of a file, file age, file size, and file count. Additional rules of folder size and count are also included.
Future Occurrences of an Alert	by Brian McDermott (MS), (OpsMgr SP1 only) this MP uses Powershell to allow creating a new Notification Subscription targeted at future occurrences of a specific alert.
Group Population from CMDB	by Kevin Holman (MS), this management pack using a SQL database as the CMDB source for populating OpsMgr groups, instead of AD.
Group-to-Class Sample	by Anders Bengtsson, this management pack allows security groups in Active Directory to be used to discover classes in Operations Manager2007. For example if you already have your servers divied into security groups in Active Directory, you can use these groups-become-classes for targeting discovery and monitoring.
HP EVA Performance	by Alain Côté, this Management pack will monitor the performance of an HP EVA, the official HP Storage MP only does alerting. This Management pack is based on the evaperf.exe command and has several collection rules, diagnostic task and one monitor for the latency. The management pack assumes evaperf.exe is in C:\Program Files\Hewlett-Packard\EVA Performance Monitor and is configured properly..
MCS Maintenance Mode MP	by Andrzej Lipka and friends, allows putting a group of objects into maintenance mode on a scheduled basis (up to 10 groups). Download our user guide HERE.
Missing Updates MP for Essentials 2007 (SCE)	by Bjorn Axell, the Missing Updates MP adds a report in the Reporting space of the SCE Console to provide a list of missing updates for SCE agent-managed computers.
Monitor and Backup Event Logs	by Andrzej Lipka, by default it discovers all event logs on all computers, monitoring is enabled by adding an override and after monitoring is enabled you can do some customization of thresholds (80 and 90% by default AFAIR)
Multi-Host Ping MP 3.0	by Raphael Burri, Pete Zerger, Jaime Correia, Neale Brown, this is a complete rewrite of the original Multi-host Ping Management Pack. The new version provides class-based ICMP ping of user-defined names (called Ping Targets). MP includes both ping availability and performance monitoring, with custom alert, performance and state views. Diagram view of ping target displays target health from multiple watcher nodes (called Ping Watchers). New version is delivered sealed to provide clean upgrade path.
NetApp Management Pack for SCOM 2007 R2	by Oscar Landman, NetApp Management pack for System Center Operations Manager 2007 R2. Designed by Oskar Landman. The management pack contains the discovery of NetApp components as well as some availability and disk space monitoring all being done by the use of SNMP
Notification Test MP	by Pete Zerger, provides an agent task to allow on-demand testing of end-to-end notification functionality in Operations Manager and Essentials 2007 (requires SP1 or later).
OpsMgr 2007 Extensions MP	by Pete Zerger, Filling a small gap in OpsMgr 2007, This Custom MP will scan the Operations DB used by Ops Mgr 2007 and alert if there are any pending actions.
OpsMgr Script Failure Troubleshooting MP	from Cameron Fuller, this simple MP contains views and rules to help identify and troubleshoot failing scripts in Ops Mgr 2007. Most notably, the "Script or Executable Failed to Run" errors commonly seen with discovery and monitoring scripts.
PKI Certificate Verification MP	from Raphael Burri, The PKI Certificate Verification MP discovers PKI Certificates and Certificate Revocation Lists inside computers' local certificate stores. It helps preventing service interruptions caused by invalid certificates by alerting when: - a certificate’s lifetime is about to expire - a certificate’s lifetime has ended - a certificate has become invalid because of a different reason - a CRL has not been updated in a timely manner
Powershell Task in R2 Console Sample MP	by Stefan Koell (code4award.net), this is a step-by-step guide on how to create a PowerShell tasks using the authoring console. This will only work for OpsMgr R2 installations!
Process Monitoring	from Cameron Fullerr, this sample MP for OpsMgr 2007 (SP1 only) illustrating process monitoring provides alerting if a process specified is not running within an acceptable range. For example - MyBigCustomerApp.exe not running at least once on this server send me an alert.
PSTasks MP	by Pete Zerger, this MP presents two console tasks targeted at computer selected in monitoring pane. The first uses psexec.exe to create remote interactive command prompt. The second uses psloggedon.exe to retrieve logged on users.
Read SQL Table Sample MP	from Mike Eisenstein, this MP illustrates how to read data from a SQL table when working with an application that logs to SQL instead of a text-based or other traditional log
ReSearch This! MP	from Cameron Fuller, this MP adds Tasks that allow operators to highlight an alert and submit a search to the SystemCenterForum knowledge base for answers, as well as share their own solutions with the community.
Remote Maintenance Mode MP	from Derek Harkin, It allows you to turn on and off maintenance mode for a monitored server by simply running a vbscript on the monitored server itself. It does not require anything extra installed on the server (no powershell, .NET etc). No OpsMgr console required!
Scheduled Tasks MP	from Raphael Burri, this is another flavor of Scheduled Tasks MP that checks the status of tasks in the Windows Scheduler. This one supports Windows 2008 and 8 languages!
Script Cook Down Sample MP	This is the sample MP Raphael Burri and Pete Zerger created in their OpsMgr custom workflow "cook down" presentation at the July 2009 meeting of the System Center Virtual User Group. Meeting audio/video at http://www.systemcentercentral.com/Details/tabid/147/IndexID/21509/Default.aspx
Security Top Alerts MP	from SecureVantage, This MP is based on guidance of Security MVP Randy Franklin Smith, this MP includes monitoring for some of the most critical security events in an Active Directory environment.
SMB File Share Performance	This contains two sample scripts to log response time data of a SMB share by copying a file to a specified share.
SMTP Check MP	from Neale Brown, this is a sample MP containing a script that checks a target server's SMTP port. The script uses the Toolsack DLL to perform the network tasks.
SNMP Custom Extensions Library	from Raphael Burri, this is a sample MP that demonstrates SNMP OID query-based discovery.
System.Performance.ConsecutiveSamplesCondition	from Robert Gillespie, 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
Trend Micro IMSS Operations Manager	by Maarten Damen,it's his first management pack for System Center Operations Manager (SCOM).
Virtual Machine Discovery MP	from Pete Zerger, This MP extends existing discovery of virtual machines by Operations Manager and Essentials to include VMware guests.
Windows Activation License Check	from Cameron Fuller, this sample MP to alert on windows licenses that are not activated.
xSNMP Management Packs – Beta Version 1.0.8 Release	by Kris Bash, The latest beta of the xSNMP packs are available for download. The included documentation covers recommendations for deployment and configuration as well as the details of the management packs.