Thanks to my colleague Kevin Holman for this post which has links to all of the SCOM tools which are becoming more difficult to find.

Including MP Viewer, Override Explorer, Override Creator, DWDatarp and others.
Thanks to my colleague Kevin Holman for this post which has links to all of the SCOM tools which are becoming more difficult to find.
Including MP Viewer, Override Explorer, Override Creator, DWDatarp and others.
Microsoft has released a preview for a handy tool which will allow you to test your System Center 2016 management packs for compatibility and compliance to best practices get it here.
This is a great addition to the System Center tool set.
The Visual Studio Authoring Extensions (VSAE) has been updated for SCOM 2016, grab it here.
Happy authoring!
A new tool has been released to assist in creating management packs for network monitoring get it here
I know from experience that having to walk a MIB file manually in order to determine which OIDs to use can be a tedious process. Tools like this one should make the whole experience much more manageable.
Tool Details
Tim Culham has been promising version 2 of his health check script for a while now and let me tell you it was worth the wait, it offers a great overview of the health of a SCOM management group on a single page, get it here.
Great stuff Tim.
Features:
A new tool has been released, for public preview, to allow connecting OMS managed devices that don’t or can’t have internet connectivity to your OMS namespace.
The tool and easy to follow instructions are available for download here.
Some good news doing the rounds is that VSAE now offers supports for Visual Studio 2015.
You can download them here
Happy authoring
Marnix Wolf has written a great post about the different options available to IT Pros to write management packs for SCOM. The article is definitely worth a read and I wholeheartedly agree with the assessment of VSAE (Visual Studio with Authoring Extensions) and MP Author from Silect
The big news that’s been making the rounds is that Microsoft has acquired BlueStripe Software.
If anything this should lead to enhancement to the visualisation side of SCOM, fingers crossed this will be in time for the release of v2016.