Tag: powershell

System Center Orchestrator 2012 PowerShell Web Service Module

This community PowerShell module created by MVP Ryan Andorfer will give you the ability to interact with Orchestrator Web Service trough PowerShell. Here is full description from the author:

A set of PowerShell cmdlets for interacting with the System Center 2012 Orchestrator web service, complete with help documentation. Supports invoking runbooks with parameters and the parameters can have html characters! This PowerShell Library contains the following functions

Name
—-
Get-SCOEvents
Start-SCORunbook
Stop-SCOJob
Get-SCOMonitorRunbook
Get-SCORunbookServer
Get-SCOSubfolders
New-SCOWebserverURL
Get-SCOJob
Get-SCORunbook

 

You can download the PowerShell module from TechNet Gallery.

Version 2.3 of My Script to Download All SCOM Management Packs with PowerShell

Script is update with some small changes all contributed by Anthony Bailey:

  • Improvements on getting the confirmation link for each MP.
  • The script now also grabs the date the MP was added to Microsoft’s catalog and adds this to the logs/screen output 
  • Any duplicate download links are removed before downloading as some download pages have duplicate files in the html 
  • Improvements on check if MP is already downloaded 

Version 2.2 of My Script to Download All SCOM Management Packs with PowerShell

Microsoft has made some changes to the code of the download pages on the MPs so the script was not able to get MP version. Here is full change log:

  • Microsoft has made some changes to the code of the download pages again so the script was not able to get the version of the MP. Made changes to work with the new code.
  • The script now checks if MP web pages is invoked successfully 
  • If MP Page is not invoked successfully error appears. Error is also written in a Error Log.
  • Improvements on check if MP is already downloaded
  • MP download links are displayed on separate lines
  • Changes section was made more readable format

You can download the new version from the following locations:

Version 2.1 of My Script to Download All SCOM Management Packs with PowerShell

Little improvements were made to this script. All of them were contributed by Anthony Bailey:

  • The script now checks if the folder for the version already exists and if only there is not such folder than downloads the MP;
  • When MP is downloaded successfully it is written in a log file;

With these improvements you can run the script with schedule task and configure SCOM to monitor the log that way you can get alerted when new MP is available. All thanks to Anthony Bailey.

Latest version you can find on TechNet Gallery or systemcentercentral.com.

Version 2.0 of My Script to Download All SCOM Management Packs with PowerShell

Not so long ago I’ve wrote a script that can download all SCOM Management Packs released by Microsoft. Unfortunately Microsoft has decided to change the interface of their download pages and didn’t asked me for approval Smile. Because of that the script stopped to work as it was dependent on the layout of the download web pages. I’ve decided to give it a try to fix the script. Looked at the layout of the new download page. Change a bit the logic and some lines and viola the script is working again.

You can grab Version 2.0 of the script from TechNet Gallery or from systemcentercentral.com.

P.S. The Script requires PowerShell 3.0.