Authoring Management Packs and Reports

Provides guidance for creating management packs and implementing basic monitoring scenarios in the Operations Console. Targeted at the IT Pro who has minimal experience with Operations Manager 2007 and basic monitoring requirements.

Complete documentation on the key concepts, design, and building of a management pack using the Operations Manager 2007 R2 Authoring Console. Targeted at the IT Pro who has significant experience using Operations Manager 2007 and requires monitoring beyond basic scenarios.

Guidance and samples for creating management packs to monitor a Unix or Linux environment. Targeted at the system administrator who wants to use new or existing administration scripts.

Reference documentation for modules, data types, and schema elements. Primarily targeted at developers but also useful to the advanced IT Pro familiar with the concepts in the Management Pack Authoring Guide.

Contains some management pack best practices and other related content. Articles can be created and edited by both Microsoft and the community.

Training videos walking through the full process of the design and development of a management pack. Targeted at developers writing a management pack for applications.

Training videos focused on understanding specific concepts or implementing specific monitoring scenarios. Multiple videos targeted at both beginning and advanced users.

Web site providing management pack samples and guidance from the Operations Manager 2007 product team and Microsoft field resources. Primarily targeted at the IT Pro.

Management packs written by the community for a variety of products and scenarios. Primarily targeted at the IT Pro community.

Community site dedicated to System Center products. Includes technical articles, blogs, and samples for management pack authoring.

Blog maintained by Microsoft Information Experience team dedicated to management pack authoring documentation and learning resources.  

Twitter account announcing new and updated training resources and documentation.

Blog providing examples and resources for including reports in management packs.

Forum monitored by Operations Manager 2007 developers, program managers, and writers where you can ask questions about writing management packs. 

Forum monitored by Operations Manager 2007 developers, program managers, and writers where you can ask questions about writing reports.

Mail alias to send feedback on existing management pack authoring related documentation or recommendations and requests for new documentation.