Although the current System Center 2012 integration packs are a good starting point for automating System Center there can be numerous extra activities to make the live of a System Center administrator / consultant even easier.
Because of this I have created an Extended OIP to include more activities.
Since the SDK for both SCSM and Opsmgr are both basically the same, writing code using the SDK can be used on both products which makes writing activities twice as efficient.

Currently the OIP Contains 12 activities:
  • Managementpack - Export – Activity with possible filters to export any management pack from both SCOM as well as SCSM into a directory.
  • Class - Get class – Activity to get a class with possible filters on every property to het classes from both SCOM and SCSM.
  • Rule - Get Rule – Activity to get a rule with possible filters on every property to het classes from both SCOM and SCSM.
  • Managementpack - Import – takes a directory and imports any management pack from the directory into the management group works on SCOM and SCSM.
  • Managementpack - List – activity to get a management pack with possible filters on every property to get management packs from both SCOM and SCSM.
  • Managementpack - Seal – Takes a directory with unsealed XML;s, a key file and company name and seals every management pack and sends the exported management packs to a separate directory.

With above activities you should be able to create a runbook to Synchronize management packs between SCOM and SCSM.  for details http://www.authoringfriday.com/2012/09/29/system-center-2012extended-integration-pack-synchronize-management-packs/

The other 6 activities make your life even easier to create a really sophisticated way to schedule and use maintenance mode on OpsMgr 2012!

  • Class – Get Class Instances – Takes a class (Internal Name) and retrieves all class instances. Can be filtered by using the filtering options in the activity.
  • Class – Get GroupClass Instances – Takes a group (Internal Name) and retrieves all members of the group
  • SCOM MaintenanceMode – Start Group – Takes a group (Internal Name) and retrieves all members of the group and place them in maintenance mode.
  • SCOM MaintenanceMode – Stop Group – Takes a group (Internal Name) and retrieves all members of the group and turn maintenance mode off.
  • SCOM MaintenanceMode – Start Object – Takes an object and places the object in maintenance mode.

 To get the V2 Version including all 12 activities - http://www.authoringfriday.com/2012/10/27/system-center-2012extended-oipmaintenance-mode-power/


An example on the usage of the OIP Using Maintenance Mode in the Self Service Portal =  http://www.authoringfriday.com/2012/10/28/system-center-2012extended-oipmaintenance-mode-power-self-service-portal/