Hi, Where can I get a listing of all available management packs for scom 2012

http://systemcenter.pinpoint.microsoft.com/en-US/home Roger

http://systemcenter.pinpoint.microsoft.com/en-US/home Roger

pinpoint lists only the 'official' ones (made by Microsoft and partner companies). You may also want to check the SCC catalog for a community MPs.http://OpsMgr.ru/

Hi Not sure how much you have used SCOM so apologies if you are an experienced administrator - I don't mean to make this sound like a lecture! 1) Marketing is all about being able to deploy as much monitoring as quickly as possible but it is all too easy to deploy agents and management packs in a day and then spend months trying to control all the alerts that come back. I talk a bit more about this here: http://www.systemcentersolutions.co.uk/index.php/scom/entry/deploying-management-packs 2) I'd be tempted to turn the question around and say what do you want to monitor? Then go off to pinpoint (or I prefer to use google \ bing) to download the management packs, store them in a software library and import them to SCOM from there. Follow a management pack lifecycle process to deploy them in a phased and controlled manner, giving yourself plenty of time to fine tune them. 3) For just a listing (and I do appreciate that is all you have asked for) of Management Packs (and details of what they monitor), this is a good start: http://mpwiki.viacode.com/ Hope it helps Graham Regards Graham New System Center 2012 Blog! - http://www.systemcentersolutions.co.uk View OpsMgr tips and tricks at http://systemcentersolutions.wordpress.com/

Hi Not sure how much you have used SCOM so apologies if you are an experienced administrator - I don't mean to make this sound like a lecture! 1) Marketing is all about being able to deploy as much monitoring as quickly as possible but it is all too easy to deploy agents and management packs in a day and then spend months trying to control all the alerts that come back. I talk a bit more about this here: http://www.systemcentersolutions.co.uk/index.php/scom/entry/deploying-management-packs 2) I'd be tempted to turn the question around and say what do you want to monitor? Then go off to pinpoint (or I prefer to use google \ bing) to download the management packs, store them in a software library and import them to SCOM from there. Follow a management pack lifecycle process to deploy them in a phased and controlled manner, giving yourself plenty of time to fine tune them. 3) For just a listing (and I do appreciate that is all you have asked for) of Management Packs (and details of what they monitor), this is a good start: http://mpwiki.viacode.com/ Hope it helps Graham Regards Graham New System Center 2012 Blog! - http://www.systemcentersolutions.co.uk View OpsMgr tips and tricks at http://systemcentersolutions.wordpress.com/