How to Back Up Custom Management Packs
Applies To: Operations Manager 2007 R2, Operations Manager 2007 SP1
Management packs contain monitoring rules for applications and services. Both sealed and unsealed management packs can be customized by superseding their default values using overrides, or by defining custom rules or monitors. Custom management packs are unsealed and are saved to a separate .xml management pack file. Only custom management packs can be exported. By default, the file is saved to the My Default management pack folder.
You should back up custom management packs regularly even though backing up the OperationsManager database captures management pack information. Running management pack backups as an independent operation from database backups allows you to re-import them separately from the database, which can be useful in cases when you must roll back the customized changes in one or more custom management packs.
Use the export feature from the Operations console to back up management packs.
To export a custom management pack
Log on to a management server with an account that is a member of the Microsoft System Center Operations Manager 2007 Administrators role for the Operations Manager 2007 management group.
In the Operations console, click Administration.
In the Administration pane, click Management Packs.
In the management packs pane, right-click the custom management pack you want to export, and then click Export Management Pack.
In the Save As dialog box, type the path and file name for the management pack file, or click Browse to save the file to a different directory, and then click Save.