Tag: group

Orchestrator System Center 2012 – Extended OIP

This integration pack by is developed by Oskar Landman. He is an MVP working for Inovativ. So what actually this IP offers:

Class – Get Class Instances – Takes a class (Internal Name) and retrieves all class instances. Can be filtered by using the filtering options in the activity. Parameters:

Class – Get GroupClass Instances – Takes a group (Internal Name) and retrieves all members of the group.

    SCOM MaintenanceMode – Start Group – Takes a group (Internal Name) and retrieves all members of the group and place them in maintenance mode.

    SCOM MaintenanceMode – Stop Group – Takes a group (Internal Name) and retrieves all members of the group and turn maintenance mode off.

    SCOM MaintenanceMode – Start Object – Takes an object and places the object in maintenance mode.

    SCOM MaintenanceMode – Stop Object – Takes an object and turns maintenance mode off.

    So as you can see definitely very useful IP. Thank you Oskar for sharing this with the community.

    You can find more about the IP and download it from here.

    OpsMgr 2012: Group Maintenance Mode via PowerShell (the way it should be) by Pete Zerger

    If you want to put group of computers in maintenance mode in SCOM 2012 you may found a lot of script over Internet on how to do that but it seems Pete’s way is the easiest and efficient one. Read how he did it here.

    Add User to Group Automated Request Offering Walkthrough

    Another great blog post from SCSM Team blog. Read the complete guide here.