This is something I have been looking forward to for a long time! The first public release of the PowerShell module MPTool, it is a module for automating and simplify OpsMgr management pack development I have been working on for almost a year together with Martin Dyrlund Arnoldi
Back in the end of 2014 we started introducing automation and self-service into our company and spend the most of 2015 automating common tasks around our daily server provisioning and de-provisioning work. In the end of 2015 we looked into automation for SCOM as we couldn’t keep up with the work the way we did it at the current point. We needed a way to automate our management pack creation to be able to create them faster and more standardized, and so we came by the awesome PowerShell module OpsMgrExtended from Tao Yang. We started to play around with Tao’s module and quickly figured out that the concept of module was exactly what we needed, but also that we required the ability to create more advanced monitoring solutions, so we decided to build our own PowerShell module, and the result is this, MPTool.
MPTool is created with the goal that if you know PowerShell you should pretty easily be able to create management packs. It contains a lot of build-in logic in each function, it automatically adds management pack references if needed, for a PowerShell discovery you only need to create a PowerShell array with the discovery data and the function it self will create the SCOM specific code needed, and so on.
We have now with great success used it internally for more than 6 months and is now ready to share it with the community, I hope you will all find it as useful as us!
Over the next weeks I will post some more articles on how you can use this module in different examples
Please report if you hit any Bugs or troubles so we can improve where it is needed, also if you have any idea for future releases we will take it in and evaluate.
Detailed documentation is available at GitHub
16 CmdLets is available now, and a few more is already in testing and will be added soon.
New-MPToolManagementPackAlias
Get-MPToolManagementPackReferenceAlias
New-MPToolManagementPack
New-MPToolOverrideManagementPack
Add-MPToolManagementPackReference
New-MPToolApplicationComponentClass
New-MPToolComputerRoleClass
New-MPToolLocalApplicationClass
New-MPToolClass
New-MPToolWindowsEventAlertRule
New-MPToolFilteredRegistryDiscovery
New-MPToolPSDiscovery
New-MPToolPSStateMonitor
New-MPToolWindowsServiceMonitor
New-MPToolDependencyMonitor
New-MPToolHostingRelationship
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