Management Pack

A Management Pack is a configuration file providing instructions to monitor the health and performance applications and components in SCOM. It is foremost a XML file organizing the Management Pack elements involved in the monitoring. After the development, a Management Pack is typically converted into a signed binary file during a process called sealing.

Management Pack files
A Management Pack typically monitor one Application or a specific version of an application. Example: There is one Management Pack to monitor all versions of Microsoft Windows Server, but there are two separate Management Packs to monitor Exchange 2007 and Exchange 2010.

Management Packs are not necessarily constituted of one unique file. More often than not, the Management Pack monitoring an application is divided into several files responsible for a specific part of the process. The best practice used in the community is to have at least three separate files: Sometime there might be other files provided by the Management Pack for a specific use, like Reporting.
 * 1) Library Management Pack, which include all the elements of the Service Model (Classes, Relationships) and the Presentation (Folders, Views).
 * 2) Discovery Management Pack, which include all the elements involved in the discovery of the monitored objects (Discoveries, Discovery scripts, Modules used by the discovery).
 * 3) Monitoring Management Pack, which include the elements involved by the actual monitoring of the application (Monitors, Rules, Modules, Tasks).

Management Pack Elements
The Management Pack is comprised of a set of elements working together to discover and monitor the health and performance of monitored objects.