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Tools and Utilities for Operations Manager and Essentials 2007
This is a collection of tools from MS and community sources, listed in alphabetical order.
- You can find the official OpsMgr Resource Kit Tools by clicking HERE.
- You can find the SecureVantage Resource Kit for ACS by clicking HERE.
Last update: April 1st, 2009
Tools |
Description |
Authors |
| AgentMM | Puts OpsMgr agents into maintenance mode | Clive Eastwood |
| Bulk Monitor State Reset (GreenMachine) | Command line tool for resetting the health of all monitors for a single agent or all agents | Tim Helton |
| Cleanup Tool for OpsMgr 2007 | If the standard GUI fails for whatever reason you can rely on this tool. I have tested it in Windows 2003 Server, Windows 2008, both 32 and 64 bit platforms. | Walter Chomak |
| Data Warehouse Data Retention Policy Tool | Allows view and configure the data warehouse data retention policies configured for the Operations Manager Data Warehouse | Daniel Savage |
| Eventlog Explorer | Exposes sources installed on a local machine, design and fire user selected sets of events involving multiple sources with one button click. Great for identifying event parameter numbers for OpsMgr event filters. |
Zbigniew Butor |
| HealthServiceWatcher Connector | This OpsMgr connector eases the task of auto-ticketing and notifying computer owners of heartbeat failure associated with their systems. . | Marius Sutara |
| LogSmith for Operations Manager | This tool connects to your RMS and allows you to filter and sort events in the Operations Manager Event Log with ease. | Stefan Koell |
| Maintenance Mode GUI Utility | Agent maintenance mode script and the group maintenance mode scripts in a graphical form so that people no longer need to be familiar with powershell or the operations manager console. | Mark Wolzak |
| Maintenance Mode Web Application | Operates on both individual agents and groups; Allows ‘right now’ configuration of maintenance mode; Allows future scheduling of maintenance mode; Displays systems currently in maintenance mode. | Steve Rachui |
| Management Pack Export Utility | This utility provides several command line options for exporting sealed and unsealed MPs from both Operations Manager 2007 and System Center Essentials 2007. | Neale Brown |
| MGInfo | Displays licensing and summary information about the Management Group | Clive Eastwood |
| Module Explorer 2.0 | Provide some visibility into the library of modules and information about each module | Boris Yanuspolsky |
| MP Viewer 1.7 | Browse for both MP and XML files.Export to Excel and HTML. | Boris Yanuspolsky |
| MP2XMLDumper | Export of specific management packs by partial name criteria | Clive Eastwood |
| My Log File Viewer | Lets you view System Center Operations Manager 2007 Server/Agent Event logs on a remote computer | Jeevan Bisht |
| OpsMgr Cleanup tool | Command-line utility that enables you to remove all the components of Operations Manager 2007 from a local computer in cases where the typical method of removing applications through Add or Remove Programs in Control Panel fails | Walter Chomak |
| OpsMgr DW Timeouts and TableCount Utility | A small utility that does a table count on all the tables in a database and reports the number of milliseconds that the operation takes on each. Good for identifying tables that may be fragmented and need to be reindexed. | Vin Dipippo |
| OpsMgr Linear Explorer Build 316 | This tool allows you to explore the lineage of OpsMgr MP elements. | Vin Dipippo |
| Override Creator | This utility that allows you to multiselect a number of rules, monitors and discoveries and create an override to enable or disable all selected items | Boris Yanuspolsky |
| Override Explorer 3.3 | View what overrides exist in a management group | Boris Yanuspolsky |
| ProxyCFG | Configure and view agent proxy settings from the command line. | Clive Eastwood |
| ProxySettings 1.1 | GUI tool for configuring and viewing agent proxy settings. | Boris Yanuspolsky |
| Restart Monitoring Tool | GUI tool that facilitates bulk reset health monitors and restart monitoring on demand for a group of monitored objects. Perfect for situations where you need to reset many health monitors at once | Marius Sutara |
| Run As profile configuration helper v1 | Will allow you to configure a RunAs profile for agents in bulk | Boris Yanuspolsky |
| SCOM Remote Maintenance Mode Scheduler | GUI based tool that lets administrators easily schedule maintenance mode for a server or group of servers inside System Center Operations Manager 2007. | Tim McFadden |
| SDK Connector Tool | Allows you to manage Product Connectors in your Operations Manager 2007 environment through a simple graphical user interface. | Vincent de Vries |
| SNMP Device Simulator | Allows you create multiple “virtual” network devices to test SNMP device monitoring in OpsMgr and Essentials 2007. | Jalasoft |
| Subscription Tool | Subscription Tool is a simple GUI based tool that lets you enable and disable all notification subscriptions. The tool will automatically re-enable all subscriptions using “Send notifications for alerts Generated after the subscription is enabled”. | Tim McFadden |
| SVT Install Tool | Remove override references from the MP you are trying to remove | Ryan Brennan |
| System Center Content Search Gadget | This gadget makes it easier to find help for Microsoft System Center products because it uses Live Search macros to search specific sites instead of the entire web | Chris Scoville |
