Last week Jonobie Ford blogged about ways to pull out monitors and rules. If you’re interested in performance rules and default thresholds associated in a Management Pack (Base OS, IIS and SQL) you should check out blog updates that Boris Yanushpolsky has posted at:

http://blogs.msdn.com/boris_yanushpolsky/archive/2007/08/07/similar-script-but-for-perf-collection-rule.aspx

http://blogs.msdn.com/boris_yanushpolsky/archive/2007/08/07/so-what-thresholds-do-my-monitors-have.aspx