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

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

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.

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.

Coretech Coffee Management Pack is the perfect management pack for the soho environment. Check the level of your coffee pot.

From 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

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!

Covestic released a sample PowerShell utility management pack with discoveries and useful tasks.

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.

by Raphael Burri, Pete Zerger and Jaime Correia: 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. Cones with a full set of inventory reports. Refer to the included MP guide for detailed instructions on how to configure the MP.

Monitor for Gray Agents that are not in maintenance mode. Alert identifies agents and agent count.

Updated version of the ReSearch This MP so that it can perform searches on the SystemCenteCentral website.

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

Sample MP to alert on windows licenses that are not activated.

Alain Côté has written his own HP EVA management pack! 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.

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

Discovers and monitors Windows Media Services 9.0 (Server 2003) and 9.5 (Server 2008). This is a native OpsMgr 2007 management pack.

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.