The System Center Operations Manager 2007 R2 Authoring Resource Kit contains numerous tools to improve your management pack authoring experience. This help file provides a quick guide for how to use each of the following tools, which are included in the resource kit:

• Management Pack Best Practices Analyzer (MPBPA), which scans management packs for best practice compliance and provides automated resolution for numerous issues. This tool integrates with the Authoring console.
  
  
• Management Pack Differences (MP Diff), which shows the differences between two management packs.
  
  
• Management Pack Spell Checker (MP Spell Checker), which checks spelling in management packs to eliminate errors in display strings.
  
  
• Management Pack Visio Generator (MP Visio Generator), which allows you to generate a class inheritance and class relationship diagram using Microsoft Office Visio.
  
  
• Management Pack Cookdown Analyzer (MP Cookdown Analyzer), which identifies workflows which may break cookdown. Suggestions are provided for fixing the performance problems.
  
  
• All References Add-in, which helps find all management pack items that reference the specific item chosen. For example, it provides the ability to right-click a class and find all rules, monitors, overrides, as well as anything else that targets that class. This tool works on most management pack items.
  
  
• Workflow Analyzer, which provides the ability to statically analyze all types of workflows. It also allows users to trace workflows running on any Health Service.
  
  
• Workflow Simulator, which provides the ability to test certain types of workflows such as discoveries, rules, and monitors, without a management server and management group. Key functionality includes the ability to test workflows, as well as view and validate output prior to signing and importing the management pack into a management group for additional testing.