There is a “guide” on management pack authoring in the OpsMgr 2007 R2 documentation. Unfortunately it is more of the same regurgitated theoretical stuff that we’ve been seeing on this subject since 2007 was released. It’s the polar opposite of what is sorely needed to complete the release of Operations Manager 2007. Without a practical real world (the many lab environment blog posts are far from real world) examples then people cannot figure out the complexity of writing a customised management pack for bespoke applications on their networks.
We don’t want object oriented theory lessons. Give us practical examples of how to go from A (discovery) to G (monitoring things like event logs, text logs, SNMP traps, WMI queries, etc) to Z (raising/closing alerts and sending notifications). Without practical real world examples we have nothing to go on. Please give us a step-by-step for using that Authoring Console. Instead of measuring it’s success based on downloads, why not measure its success based on ongoing usage?