This is just a refresher course on how to convert an MS Operations Manager 2005 management pack into an OpsMgr 2007 management pack. It’s not tough, but I’m doing it so I figure I might as well document it!

1. Open your MOM 2005 Administration console, click on “Management Packs”, then select “Import/Export Management Packs” in the right hand pane.

2. Go through the wizard, selecting the export option, and choosing the rule group you’re looking for. You can choose to export views and tasks as well, but I recommend against that as it’s easy enough to recreate in OpsMgr and you have a lot more objects to choose from. Give it a file name - I usually use <Rule Group>.MP.2005 to make it obvious where it came from.

3. Next you’ll want to make sure you have the MOM 2005 Resource Kit installed on your management server and go to %PROGRAM FILES%\Microsoft Operations Manager Resource Kit\Tools\Convert Management Packs to XML. Copy the file MP2XML.exe to the same place you exported your management pack to.

4. Now get to that location via the command line, and lets take that binary AKM and make it useful. Converting it is pretty straightforward - just run MP2XML.exe MOM2005ManagementPack.akm MyNewXMLFile.xml.

5. When it’s done, copy that new MOM 2005 XML document into your SCOM directory. In that directory lie 2 tools we need, MPConvert.exe and MPVerify.exe. You can copy these tools somewhere else if you like, but the verification tool needs access to other management packs so make sure it’s in your %PATH% otherwise.

6. Run MPConvert.exe against your XML file. The tool is looking for MPConvert.exe OLD_NAME NEW_NAME. For simplicity’s sake I use the same name, only appending _converted to the end to differentiate the 2.

7. When that’s done, run MPVerify.exe against the new managment pack. What this tool does is ensure that everything has been converted over to the new format properly. It’s as simple as MPVerify.exe New_Management_Pack.xml

8. From there, it’s up to you. You can open the new unsealed management pack in the Authoring Console to adjust things, or you can just import it in as it is - the choice is yours! That’s all there is to it!