System Center Operations Manager Management Pack Authoring

Always wondered how they design/create their own custom System Center Operations Manager Management Pack?

There is a couple of ways to create your own custom management pack.

Here are the 3 most common ways in doing that:

1. Silect MP Author - View post here
2. Visual Studio - Free download here (Visual Studio 2013 Community)
3. XML - Definitely not the easiest to start with

Still "lost" in where to start? Here is a link to the Microsoft Virtual Academy course on what you will need to know on where to start designing/creating your very own custom management pack.

http://www.microsoftvirtualacademy.com/training-courses/system-center-2012-r2-operations-manager-management-pack

Please feel free to share/like or post your ideas on any custom management packs that you are busy creating.

Happy authoring!!

Silect MPAuthor

Silect MP Author is a tool used for creating/authoring SCOM Management Packs.

They have shipped the new Service Pack 3 version of the tool.
http://www.silect.com/mp-author

You can download the tool here: http://www.silect.com/content/mp-author-free-download-form

If you require any assistance, you can view the online support media at http://www.silect.com/mp-author-support or email them at info@silect.com

Here is a the new features that comes with SP3 (Copied it from their site):

• Improved knowledge viewing and editing in multiple language environments 
• Improved XML editing 
• New feature to "Check for missing display names" 
• Added ability to use base classes other than LocalApplication when creating new classes 
• Additional MP elements are displayed 
• Added a drop down list of $$ parameters for alert messages 
• Schedule property grid made more user friendly 
• Improvements to memory usage
• We've also fixed a number of bugs in this release.

Hope that this quick post was helpful.