First Look at OpsLogix’s VMware Management Pack (beta)–Part II

After taking a first look at OpsLogix’s VMware Management Pack I’ve released I’ve missed something that I usually test with such core MPs like this one. That test is to bring the discovered objects from SCOM to SCSM as Configuration Items. It is not something hard to do and I’ve described the process before here but nevertheless I think it will good to see it visually in this blog post.

First you need to import OpsLogix IMP –Base Library MP and OpsLogix IMP – VMWare MP in Service Manager.

But before actually importing these two you need to import also their dependencies:

In my case I’ve needed to import Operations Manager Internal Library, System Center Visualization Library and System Center Image Library. All management packs can be found in the SCOM installation in the Management Packs folder. Keep in mind that for the System Center Visualization Library the MPB file have to be imported:

 

After successful import you need to configure your Operations Manager CI connector in SCOM to sync the VMWare MP:

Next we need to put some classes in the SCSM allow list in order to sync the instances for that classes. The classes we will find in SCOM Discovered Inventory View:

Now that we know the display names of the classes we can easily find their internal names with PowerShell.

You need to start Operations Manager cmdlet and execute the following commands:

• Get-SCClass | Where-object {$_.DisplayName -match "Vmware Cluster"}
• Get-SCClass | Where-object {$_.DisplayName -match "Vmware Datacenter"}
• Get-SCClass | Where-object {$_.DisplayName -match "Vmware Datastore"}
• Get-SCClass | Where-object {$_.DisplayName -match "Vmware ESX Server"}
• Get-SCClass | Where-object {$_.DisplayName -match "Vmware Network"}
• Get-SCClass | Where-object {$_.DisplayName -match "Vmware Resource Pool"}
• Get-SCClass | Where-object {$_.DisplayName -match "Vmware vCenter"}
• Get-SCClass | Where-object {$_.DisplayName -match "Vmware Virtual Machine"}

Basically we need the following classes:

• OpsLogix.IMP.VMWare.Cluster
• OpsLogix.IMP.VMWare.Datacenter
• OpsLogix.IMP.VMWare.Datastore
• OpsLogix.IMP.VMWare.ESXServer
• OpsLogix.IMP.VMWare.Network
• OpsLogix.IMP.VMWare.ResourcePool
• OpsLogix.IMP.VMWare.vCenter
• OpsLogix.IMP.VMWare.VirtualMachine

Now that we have the internal names of the classes we can easily put them in SCSM allow list again with PowerShell:

I am using the built-in SCSM PowerShell cmdlets and executing these commands:

• Add-SCSMAllowListClass -ClassName OpsLogix.IMP.VMWare.Cluster
• Add-SCSMAllowListClass -ClassName OpsLogix.IMP.VMWare.Datacenter
• Add-SCSMAllowListClass -ClassName OpsLogix.IMP.VMWare.Datastore
• Add-SCSMAllowListClass -ClassName OpsLogix.IMP.VMWare.ESXServer
• Add-SCSMAllowListClass -ClassName OpsLogix.IMP.VMWare.Network
• Add-SCSMAllowListClass -ClassName OpsLogix.IMP.VMWare.ResourcePool
• Add-SCSMAllowListClass -ClassName OpsLogix.IMP.VMWare.vCenter
• Add-SCSMAllowListClass -ClassName OpsLogix.IMP.VMWare.VirtualMachine

To verify that the classes are added to the allowed sync list you can use: Get-SCSMAllowList

Next you need to force sync on your Operations Manager CI connector. After the connector syncs successful you can create several views to check if the instances of these classes are synced:

The beta of the MP does not discover a lot of properties for the objects but I am hoping this will be changed in the final version or some of the next ones as proper and rich CMDB is important.