Windows PowerShell® 2.0 Bible

CHAPTER 16

Managing System Center Operations Manager 2007 R2

IN THIS CHAPTER

Exploring Operations Manager cmdlets

Processing alerts in bulk

Automating maintenance mode

Discovering, deploying, and managing agents and network devices

Exploring discovered inventory

Working with overrides

Creating monitoring scripts in Windows PowerShell

Where to find and share Windows PowerShell scripts for Operations Manager

The command shell that comes with System Center Operations Manager 2007 R2 (OpsMgr) provides the means to perform many tasks you might normally perform in the OpsMgr Operations console from the command line instead. It also provides a convenient way to perform bulk administration and recurring tasks that would be labor-intensive or simply not possible from the console user interface. To successfully launch the command shell, you must be a member of an Active Directory security group with membership in the Operations Manager Administrators user role. All OpsMgr command shell instances connect directly to the OpsMgr Root Management Server (RMS), and the connection will fail without OpsMgr Administrator privileges.

Exploring the Available Cmdlets

The OpsMgr command shell contains 87 product-specific cmdlets for managing an Operations Manager 2007 (OpsMgr) deployment. The first cmdlet you may want to try is Get-OperationsManagerCommand, which returns a list of all the cmdlets contained in the OpsMgr Windows PowerShell snap-in. Once you have the list of cmdlets for OpsMgr in hand, ...