Overview

Like many, your organization is striving to deliver reliable datacenter services to meet the ever increasing demands of your business, be it SLAs defined by performance and availability of business applications or robust datacenter infrastructure. Many have chosen Microsoft System Center Operations Manager (SCOM) for it’s vast partner ecosystem and end to end monitoring platform for physical, virtual, private and public cloud environments.

Infrastructure architect and IT Administrators, who use Operations Manager (SCOM) for performance and event-monitoring, understand that application knowledge about the events, health, and performance are stored in a Management Packs (MPs).

How well MPs performs is determined by:

• The knowledge you get about an application or service is only as good as the MPs you have for that application
• The MP is only as good as the information it exposes. 

Microsoft and other ISV partners provide organizations are a great source of out-of-the-box MPs to monitor you infrastructure. However, to fully deliver a reliable data center, you need to monitor all your applications, may they are internally developed, or developed by a 3rd party not support by the System Center Ecosystem.

Filling in the Gaps

Microsoft and ISV’s provide SCOM management packs for well known applications, but if your application is home-grown, lacks market share, or existing management packs are insufficient, there are relatively few options.

• Break out the System Center Operations Manager SDK 
  • Complex & Time consuming to learn.
  • Are you in the really business to write MPs?
    
    
• Hire a System Center MP Developer/Consultant
  • Relatively small expert base to leverage
  • Costly
  • Maintenance & Customize Costs
    
    
• PowerWF for SCOM 
  • Reduce the time and effort to implement Operations Manager
    
  • Quickly Create MPs using drag&drop
  • Cost Effective
  • Leverages PowerShell,  thus pulling expertise from large knowledge base.

Features

Drag & Drop Script Development

PowerWF for Service Manager provides all the features found in PowerWF, including Drag & Drop script development. Learn More...

Management Pack Creation

PowerWF simplifies the creation of Microsoft System Center Operations Manager management packs. The Operations Manager wizard walks you through the steps to create thresholds and performance counters.

Infinitely Expandable

PowerWF makes Operations Manager infinitely expandable. Every PowerShell Snap-In & Module automatically becomes a Windows Workflow Activity in PowerWF, allowing you to create workflows that encompass virtual any environment.