If you do automation in a “Microsoft World” you probably start these days with Service Manager and Service Management Automation (SMA). At one point you will have a need for building a connector to another system for exchanging data. One example could be that you need to submit incident data from Service Manager to another […]
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SMA – SMA Runbook Toolkit (SMART) Watch The Encoding
Recently while building some serious SMA runbooks I bumped in an issue. We usually develop the SMA runbooks in different editors like PowerShell ISE / SMA GUI / Notepad++ and keep them saved in TFS online, which we managed through Visual Studio. After we finished developing the runbook, which would update the runbook activity in […]
SCSM – Get Service Request Object From Any Nested Child Runbook Activity
When you are starting to automate stuff in your cloud environment you probably use SMA for automation and Service Manager to trigger the necessary runbooks in SMA. As this is really great stuff you will start facing many new challenges because you have to script in PowerShell to achieve your goals. Depending on your architecture […]
SCSM – Apply SMA Runbook Template Using SMA / PowerShell
In my previous post I have written about adding activities to a service request using PowerShell SMLets. Well this just added the “empty” activities / “framework” but the activities were not configured yet. As an example I want to add a SMA runbook activity (using this method) and then apply a pre-configured SMA runbook template […]
SCOM 2012 – PowerShell Grid Widget & Web Console Pitfall
In the past posts I have blogged about the new dashboard widgets primarily about PowerShell Grid & Web Widget. As in every technology there are cases were you stumble on some errors. This happens to me while playing with the PowerShell Grid Widget. The following code should list all processes which have a CPU value […]
SCSM – Adding Activities Using SMA / PowerShell Workflow
For the past couple of weeks I have been doing some automation stuff using Service Management Automation (SMA) and therefore PowerShell in conjunction with Service Manager. I like PowerShell very much, especially if I can interact with other systems. As you might know in the “old” days you would use Orchestrator and Service Manager to […]
SCOM 2012 – Example Agent Health Check Dashboard Using PowerShell Grid Widgets
In this post I would like to show you what the benefit is of having PowerShell integration in dashboards. The days before having the PowerShell widgets you mostly needed to export your PowerShell queries / results into some sort of text file / Excel sheet etc. to display the result. For example a common request […]
SCOM 2012 – Fun Jukebox Dashboard With PowerShell Widgets
I am currently experimenting with the PowerShell widgets and trying to figure out what you can do and what you cannot do. My funny idea was to create a Jukebox dashboard where you can select a song and PowerShell will play it using the “beep sounds”. Yes I know SCOM is a monitoring tool but […]
SCOM 2012 – Display & Download MPs Using PowerShell Widgets
A nice and sexy way to have the latest management packs at your fingertips is using the new PowerShell widgets. The SCOM product team shows in their example how you could list the management packs using the PowerShell Grid widget. Stanislav Zhelyazkov also provided a script to fully download all management packs with PowerShell. I […]
SCOM 2012 – Check DNS Servers And DNS Records / IP MP
In today’s world of IT everything is still heavily depending on DNS. It can be the most sophisticated application / technology if DNS does not work all other parts also won’t work. SCOM offers a good DNS MP which monitors essential parts of your DNS infrastructure. Something that is missing and I think makes sense […]