The long waited and anticipated release of the SCOM Management Pack Creator latest version is now here
Though there have been some drastic changes to this release, especially now its no longer going by the original "V3.0" name as its now a fully blown PowerShell Module.
Another version will be released which will specifically be the wizard version currently known as the "SCOM Management Pack Creator V2.0"
You can download it right here https://irp-cdn.multiscreensite.com/c1f89e50/files/uploaded/SCOM%20Management%20Pack%20Creator%20PS%...
Contains the full guide and template on how to build the Management Pack completely
The SCOM Management Pack Creator latest version is now a fully importable module.
A new function has been added which is called Get-SCOMClassID
The power of this function is with in conjunction to completing management pack builds on different functions which accept a pipeline and also accept a parameter with pipeline property name.
For example this command has switches to obtain the following;
The previous version had the outputs in .XML files, which was a good way to copy the output and place into your Visual Studio Project.
Now this has been changed, so now all of the outputs will be in .MPX files which allows you to import the MPX file directly into your Visual Studio Management Pack project without having to copy anything across.
Though the previous version multiple discoveries and monitors could be created. But the only limitation was that they could only contain one discovery or monitor per .XML file.
This has now been changed, so now in a wizard form or function form you can now add as many as you want into one .MPX file which makes it a lot easier when creating discoveries or monitors.
The following new monitors have been added to the PowerShell Module
You can now create Agent Based Tasks in the module and assign them to the classes which you have created within your management pack
You can now create Diagnostic and Recovery tasks which can be added to any of the monitors which you have.
There is now huge advancements made on the UNIX/Linux functions in this module.
Each Monitor or Discovery you create can now have a Knowledge base article attached it. These are optional fields so you can enter a null value if you wish for this not to be created.
Each Discovery or Monitor will contain a switch which will allow you to add words to your knowledgebase articles alongside comments which will illustrate where you can add further information to them