What are the roles of management packs?

1. A management pack is an XML document that extends the monitoring capabilities of operations manager 2007.
2. Management packs are authored to monitor specific hardware and software elements by indicating, in details, exactly what should be looked at and how it should be looked at.
3. when you install the operations manager by default we will receive dozens of management packs
4. Management packs are written by programmers with in-depth system and application knowledge. It’s sort of like expert watching your system.

System center operations manager components

Agents: are service or can call small piece of software that you deploy to computers to monitor with SCOM..

Operations console: is operations managers command center and is the tool by which you will view gathered data, management packs, reporting and much more

Management packs: basic building blocks for operations manager and includes information necessary to monitor specific kinds of hardware and software