Brad's Tech Blog » Management Pack http://bradstechblog.com Microsoft technologies like: System Center Operations Manager, and whatever else comes up at the office. Sat, 13 Feb 2010 01:59:12 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 en hourly 1 How to Remove Management Pack Dependencies http://bradstechblog.com/scom/how-to-remove-management-pack-dependencies http://bradstechblog.com/scom/how-to-remove-management-pack-dependencies#comments Thu, 14 Aug 2008 07:46:57 +0000 Brad Hearn http://bradstechblog.com/?p=102 When you create an override and don’t save it to a custom Management Pack it will by default save to the Microsoft.SystemCenter.OperationsManager.DefaultUser.xml management pack. This will later on bite you in the ass when you want to remove the effected management pack. To avoid this of coarse you should always save changes to a custom management pack…..

 

But if you did not like all the rest of have done at least once, then here is how you can remove the dependencies. But first please backup you management packs.

  1. Download and install Microsoft’s XML Notepad
  2. Export the Default management pack to any folder you like. This will export it into an XML file. Back this file up before making changes to it.
  3. Open the XML file in XML Notepad
  4. Expand the management pack in the left window to \\managmentPack\Manifest\References 

  1. Look in each sub-folder named Reference for the Management pack that you are trying to remove. Once you find it Delete the Reference folder.
  2. Import the Default XML file back into the console.
  3. Try to delete the management pack again.
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