Using the Management Pack Catalog
The Community Management Pack Catalog (CMPC) sets out to simplify finding new SCOM management packs and staying up to date with the current management packs that you have. The functions of the CMPC can be broken down into the four core categories below.
Searching for a SCOM Management Pack? The Discover Management Packs pane provides an easy to use interface for navigating through all Management Packs contained within the CMPC. Three methods are available for filtering and searching through management packs to find the pack you need.
The Installed Packs view quickly answers the question "Are my community management packs up-to-date?" Using a similar format to the standard Management Packs pane in SCOM, only packs from the CMPC are displayed.
The Community Management Pack Catalog populates its data from a simple JSON based index and file structure. Details on the file structure and index are available here.
The simplest of the functions, the CMPC settings allow you to modify the alert settings easily.
The Management Pack Catalog is a community effort, any contributions and help are appreciated.
The Community Management Pack Catalog (CMPC) consists of two distinct GitHub repositories. This repository (scom-community-catalog) and wiki focus on the data used to populate the management packs contained within the CMPC. The UI and operational code portion of the project are at scom-community-catalog-ui.