(Last update on 12/27/2012)
There is an official System Center catalog hosted on PinPoint. I created this separate and unofficial page for two main use cases:
- Being able to easily identify non-Microsoft products for which there management packs, without browsing the whole list on several pages
- Also include community developed MP for commercial software and hardware. While not supported, some of these MP may represent an alternative to fee-based MP, and sometimes they do not have a commercial counterpart so they represent a good option instead of creating your own management pack.
The table lists known management packs for commercial software and hardware. Management packs cost is also specified when known, “free” meaning that it comes with the associated technology (available as a free download or through your customer representative for this vendor). If you know of other management packs of if you feel there are any mistakes, please let me know so I can update the page! And remember that, in most cases, a management pack designed for OpsMgr 2007 should also work with OpsMgr 2012.
Also, if we want to be fully complete here, the list should also include:
– All Microsoft servers applications. I only mentioned a few of them, because it’s very likely that there is a management pack for these applications, either on the product’s media or on the download center (Microsoft servers teams create management packs as part of their development engineering criteria)
– About 300 agentless-based management packs from Quest Software (formerly eXc Software management packs, now part of Dell). I did not include all of them in the table below, to keep it readable. But if you don’t find a management pack below, it’s possible that there is one available from Dell/Quest.
Finally, there are MANY MANY community management packs for specific scenarios like SMB Performance or synthetic checks on DNS/SMTP, etc (like here – some of them are mentioned here when I thought it made sense). The list here is solely focusing on management packs for software/hardware. It’s also possible to develop your own management packs starting with the built-in templates in the Authoring Pane of the OpsMgr console, using the dedicated Authoring Console or using specialized tools like Management Pack Monitoring Studio or PowerWF.
| Technology | Developed by (w/Link) | Cost |
| Hardware | ||
| Fujitsu Primergy | Fujitsu | Free |
| Unisys | Unisys | Free (logon required) |
| Dell PowerEdge / PowerVault, DRAC and CMC | Dell | Free |
| HP ProLiant | HP | Free |
| HP ProLiant (SNMP-based, for ESX hosts for example) | Community | Free |
| HP ProLiant (advanced capabilities, plus support for servers running Linux and VMware) | HP | Comes with HP Insight Control for System Center |
| IBM System x Servers, Flex System x Servers, System x iDataPlex, blades servers and BladeCenter Chassis | IBM | Free |
| Sun Fire x64 Servers and Sun Blade x64 Servers Moduless | Sun | Fee-based or Free (not sure) |
| Cisco UCS | Cisco | Free |
| Virtualization (servers, VDI and sessions-based) | ||
| Xen Server | ComTrade | Fee-based |
| VMware | Quest Software | Free |
| VMware | BridgeWays | Fee-based |
| VMware | Veeam | Fee-based (free for 10 sockets) |
| VMware | Jalasoft (connector) | Fee-based |
| VMware View | Community | Free |
| Hyper-V | BridgeWays | Free |
| Hyper-V | Microsoft | Free |
| Virtual Machine Manager | Microsoft | Free (on the VMM media) |
| Xen App | Citrix | Free (requires Enterprise Edition and access to MyCitrix.com website) |
| Xen App | ComTrade | Fee-based |
| Xen Desktop | ComTrade | Fee-based |
| Terminal Services and Remote Desktop Services (RDS) | Microsoft | Free |
| Network (note that most SNMP solutions here apply to OpsMgr 2007, since OpsMgr 2012 includes native in-depth network discovery and monitoring) | ||
| Ping Management Pack | OpsLogix | Free |
| Multi-Host Ping MP 3.0 | Community | Free |
| Management Packs from xSNMP, supporting CheckPointSPlat, Cisco, APC, Sun Hardware, NetSNMP, HP Proliant, NetApp, NetScreen, DataDomain, Dell PowerEdge, Juniper, SonicWALL, Brocade, HP ProCurve, NetBotz and AIX. And Oracle as beta. | Community (leveraging the native SNMP monitoring feature from OpsMgr 2007) | Free |
| Cisco Catalyst 2950 and 2960 switches | JaxMP (leveraging the native SNMP monitoring feature from OpsMgr). 2950 and 2960. | Free for 2950
Unknown for 2960 |
| Cisco devices (list here) | JaxMP (leveraging the native SNMP monitoring feature from OpsMgr). | Fee-based |
| MIB 2 MP converter | vNext | Fee-based |
| Jalasoft Xian Io, supporting Cisco switches, routers, firewalls, VPNs and wireless devices, HP ProCurve, Nokia devices and generic devices | Jalasoft (connector) | Fee-based |
| Other connectors with EMC SMARTS or SolarWinds Orion | EMC | EMC : Fee-based
Orion : Fee-based |
| Load Balancers and Network Optimization | ||
| F5 BIG-IP | F5 | Free (registration required) |
| F5 BIG-IP | Jalasoft (connector) | Fee-based |
| Citrix NetScaler | Citrix | Free (requires access to MyCitrix.com website) |
| Alachisoft NCache | Community | Free |
| Storage | ||
| NetApp ApplianceWatch PRO | NetApp | Free (login required on now.netapp.com) |
| NetApp | Community | Free |
| IBM storage systems Storwize V7000, Flex System V7000, SAN Volume Controller, XIV and DS8000 | IBM | Free |
| Dell PowerVault MD (MD1000 , MD1200, MD1220, MD3000, MD3000i.MD3200, MD3200i, MD3220, MD3220i, MD3600F, MD3600i, MD3620F, MD3620i) | Dell | Free |
| Dell EqualLogic PS Arrays (PS4000, PS4100, PS5000E, PS5000X, PS5000XV, PS5500, PS6000, PS6010, PS6100, PS6500, PS6510) | Dell | Free |
| HP MSA, VA, EVA and XP arrays and also MSL, EML and ESL tape libraries, as well as P4000, E5000, X5000, 3PAR (F, T, V), and storage B-series switches | HP | Free |
| HP EVA Performance | Community | Free |
| EMC CLARiiON | EMC, see here, here and here | Free |
| EMC VNX and Symmetrix VMAX | EMC | Free |
| HDS | Hitachi Data Systems | Free |
| Brocade HBA | Brocade | Free |
| Brocade SAN | Brocade | Free |
| Emulex HBAs and CNAs (PRO MP) | Emulex | Free download |
| QLogic Fiber Channel HBA | QLogic | Free download |
| Infrastructure | ||
| APC UPS (InfraStruXure Central – ISX) | APC | Free (survey required) |
| APC UPS | Jalasoft (connector) | Fee-based |
| Server Operating Systems | ||
| Microsoft Windows 2000 / 2003 / 2008 / 2008 R2 | Microsoft | Free |
| HP-UX | Microsoft | Free |
| IBM AIX | Microsoft | Free |
| Sun/Oracle Solaris | Microsoft | Free |
| Novell SUSE | Microsoft | Free |
| Novell SUSE | Novell | Fee-based |
| RedHat Enterprise Linux | Microsoft | Free |
| IBM AS/400 | EView Technology | Fee-based |
| AIX/Solaris/Linux | Jalasoft (connector) | Fee-based |
| Directory Services, Clustering, File and Print, Base Services | ||
| Active Directory | Microsoft | Free |
| Active Directory Extensions | Community | Free |
| Active Directory Certificate Services | Microsoft | Free |
| PKI Certificate Verification | Community (last version here) | Free |
| Quest Active Roles | Community | Free |
| Microsoft Windows Clustering | Microsoft | Free |
| Symantec Veritas Cluster Server | ATMG | Fee-based |
| File Services | Microsoft | Free |
| File System Management Pack | Community | Free |
| Scheduled Tasks | Community | Free |
| Scheduled Tasks | Community (latest version is here) | Free |
| Scheduled Tasks | Community | Free, with support option |
| Xerox CentreWare | Xerox | Unknown |
| Dell Printers | Dell | Free |
| Databases | ||
| Microsoft SQL Server | Microsoft | Free |
| Microsoft SQL Server Extensions | Community | Free |
| Microsoft SQL Server Mirroring | Community | Free |
| Oracle | BridgeWays | Fee-based |
| Oracle | NiCE | Fee-based |
| Oracle (Unix only) | Community | Free |
| Oracle | Infront Consulting | Fee-based |
| Oracle Business Intelligence | ComTrade | Fee-based |
| MySQL | BridgeWays | Fee-based |
| IBM DB2 | BridgeWays | Fee-based |
| IBM DB2 | NiCE | Fee-based |
| Web Servers | ||
| Microsoft IIS | Microsoft | Free |
| Apache | BridgeWays | Fee-based |
| Applications Server | ||
| JEE servers (IBM WebSphere, Oracle WebLogic, Redhat JBoss, Apache Tomcat, plus JMX monitoring) | Microsoft | Free (out of the box with OpsMgr 2012) |
| RedHat JBOSS | BridgeWays | Fee-based |
| Apache Tomcat | BridgeWays | Fee-based |
| IBM WebSphere | BridgeWays | Fee-based |
| BEA WebLogic | BridgeWays | Fee-based |
| Java Attributes | BridgeWays | Fee-based |
| .NET and ASP.NET (code-level monitoring of performance and exceptions for servers and clients, without code changes in the application) | Microsoft (Application Performance Monitoring feature in OpsMgr 2012, a.k.a. APM, technology comes from the AVIcode acquisition) | Free |
| Messaging and Collaboration | ||
| Microsoft Exchange Server | Microsoft | Free |
| Microsoft SharePoint Server | Microsoft | Free |
| Microsoft Lync | Microsoft | Free |
| IBM Lotus Notes | NiCE | Fee-based |
| Blackberry Enterprise Server | OpsLogix | Fee-based |
| Blackberry Enterprise Server | BoxTone (connector) | Fee-based |
| Blackberry Enterprise Server | NiCE | Fee-based |
| Blackberry Enterprise Server | Zenprise (connector) | Fee-based |
| Blackberry Enterprise Server | Community | Free |
| Blackberry Enterprise Server | Infront Consulting | Fee-based |
| RightFax | Infront Consulting | Fee-based |
| Antivirus | ||
| Microsoft System Center Endpoint Protection | Microsoft | Free |
| TrendMicro | Infront Consulting | Fee-based |
| McAfee ePO | Infront Consulting | Fee-based |
| TrendMicro | Community | Free |
| TrendMail ScanMail | Community | Free |
| Backup and Restore | ||
| Microsoft System Center Data Protection Manager | Microsoft | Free |
| IBM Tivoli Storage Manager | ATMG | Fee-based |
| CA ArcServe | ATMG | Fee-based |
| Microsoft NTBackup | ATMG | Fee-based |
| EMC NetWorker | ATMG | Fee-based |
| Avamar | Infront Consulting | Fee-based |
| Veritas Backup Exec (MOM 2005 MP) | Symantec | Free |
| Symantec Backup Exec 2010 R3 | Symantec | Free |
| Symantec Enterprise Vault 8.0 | Symantec | Free |
| Veritas Storage Foundation for Windows | Symantec | Free |
| Double Take | Double Take | Unknown |
| Orchestration and Task Scheduling | ||
| Microsoft Opalis Integration Server 6.3 | Community | Free |
| Microsoft System Center Orchestrator | Microsoft | Free |
| Microsoft System Center Orchestrator (monitoring runbooks) | Infront Consulting | Free (registration required) |
| Absyss VisualTOM | ATMG | Fee-based |
| BMC Control-M | ATMG | Fee-based |
| ActiveBatch | Advanced Systems Concepts | Unknown |
| Other applications | ||
| MSMQ | Microsoft | Free |
| EMC Documemtum | ComTrade | Fee-based |
| Oracle Siebel | ComTrade | Fee-based |
| SAP | OzSoft | Fee-based |
| SAP | REALTECH | Fee-based |
| Microsoft Windows Media Services 9 | Community | Free |
| Adobe Flash Media Server | Community | Free |
| SWIFT | Infront Consulting | Fee-based |
| HL7 | Infront Consulting | Fee-based |
| Trading Floor (Bloomberg LP, Reuters Xtra, etc.) | Infront Consulting | Fee-based |
The Unofficial System Center Catalog 