The Operations Manager 2007 R2 SDK Reference was designed to work specifically for Operations Manager scenarios. With the release of System Center 2012 – Operations Manager, a portion of that SDK Reference has been moved into the System Center 2012 SDK Reference. The System Center 2012 SDK Reference content is now shared by both Service Manager and Operations Manager. Many of the base class, class, and interface definitions you will use are defined in the System Center 2012 SDK Reference.

For more detailed information about what has changed in the SDK and how to migrate your code to the new application programming interfaces (APIs), see the Compile-Time Compatibility Overview.

Run-time compatibility support makes it possible for most applications and extensions that used Operations Manager 2007 R2 client binaries to successfully connect to an System Center 2012 – Operations Manager server without upgrading to the new API. However, Operations Manager 2007 R2 client applications that attempt to create or update a management pack by creating either a monitor, task, override, rule, or view will have unexpected results, and they will throw an exception. Operations Manager 2007 R2 client applications that attempt to import or export management packs will also throw an exception.

While some Operations Manager 2007 R2 applications and extensions will continue to run without throwing exceptions, we highly recommend that you update old code to support the new System Center 2012 – Operations Manager binaries.

Important
The Update method will work only when the SDK client is running on the management server.

Compile-Time Compatibility Support

Agent Configuration API

The Managed Modules API (MM API) makes possible to develop managed modules.

You should create a custom module only when the modules that ship with System Center 2012 – Operations Manager are insufficient.

Concepts