As our Ops Mgr administrator I regularly get asked questions by other analysts, such as our DBAs, such as "where can I see a list of what is scom monitoring exactly? Where is a list of all the monitors for each management pack and what are the thresholds? What is a 'critical' state?" Once I've explained the concept of an object and asked them to be more specific they still find it hard to understand why I can't produce a list of everything. In their heads they expect to see a schedule detailing all the alerts and monitors provided by and MP which they can mark up indicating where they would like thresholds changed, and what type of notifcation they would like to receive. Do others experience this and, if so, how do you deal with it? I think they think I am being obstructive, or doubt my SCOM knowledge (they may be right in this)

Steve We just discussed this at an MVP call only last month. You are not alone in requesting this and many people ask for the same thing. For this question i use the MP explorer Its the bomb!Paul Keely

Sorry its mpviewer and not explorer http://blogs.msdn.com/b/boris_yanushpolsky/archive/2008/06/25/mpviewer-1-7-now-works-with-latest-e12-mp.aspx Best wishes Paul Paul Keely

Hi Other utilities include the Effective Configuration Viewer - http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/en/details.aspx?FamilyID=A9DB4DCA-6716-478D-89B9-42F27EBC76A8&amp%3Bdisplaylang=en Also, Silect Software have released (not sure if it is actually RTM or stil beta) an Agent Explorer utility - http://www.silect.com/news/press-releases/2010/silect-software-enhances-it-productivity-new-management-solutions-microsoft http://blogs.technet.com/b/stefan_stranger/archive/2010/11/30/what-monitors-rules-and-discoveries-are-running-on-an-opsmgr-agent.aspx Cheers GrahamView OpsMgr tips and tricks at http://systemcentersolutions.wordpress.com/

Thanks Graham, Steve Skelton

Current versions of MPViewer can be found here: http://blogs.msdn.com/b/dmuscett/archive/2012/02/19/boris-s-tools-updated.aspx - I made quite a few fixes since the version I inherited from Boris.