Rob Doucette has just published at http://PowerGUI.org a nice example of using PowerGUI to create a custom UI console for Microsoft Systems Center Operations Manager 2007 (a.k.a. MOM v3).
The upcoming release of what used to be called Microsoft Operations Manager (MOM) is also PowerShell-enabled. This of course means that you can use PowerShell as a command line interface for Operations Manager, and use PowerGUI to create your own custom administrative consoles with whichever functionality you need.
MOM guys approached the task slightly differently than the Exchange team. In a sense they were less radical and their console is not built on PowerShell (as Exchange Management Console is). However, unlike the Exchange folks they created a PowerShell provider for command-line browsing.
You can find more information on Operations Manager 2007 PowerShell in Roger Sprague’s blog at: http://blogs.msdn.com/scshell/. For example, his recent post is about Discovering Windows Computers using PowerShell.
You can use Rob’s PowerGUI snapin to get started creating your Operations Manager UIs, and use Roger’s blog for the code you can copy/paste into them for a lot of cool functionality.
P.S. Surprisingly, there are not that many active blogs about MOM:
- There’s one by Ian Blyth. For example, see his nice summary on his RC2 impressions.
- And there’s one by Andrzej – see his RC2 writeup.
Also neither of these two posts mention PowerShell. Is MOM community just less enthusiastic and blog-oriented than the Exchange one?
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The MOM ecosystem is not as large as the Exchange one! Especially as SCOM 2007 is still in beta. It will go RTM at the end of this month.
I have not got into PowerShell myself although I can see it’s power but bloggers like Stefan Stranger and Pete Zerger have done posts on it.
I keep a list of all active MOM (SCOM) bloggers that I come about on a page on my blog site http://ianblythmanagement.wordpress.com/mom-blog-links/ as well as links to web sites http://ianblythmanagement.wordpress.com/mom-web-links/.
Thanks for the link.
Ian Blyth
http://ianblythmanagement.wordpress.com/
Thanks for the links Ian! Learning something new every day…
Hi Dmitry,
I had to learn about your weblog through Ian but I’m glad I found you. Maarten Goet is telling me I should get into contact with you because I love PowerShell. But’s it’s hard to convince others
I tried yesterday, during lunch at MMS 2007, but failed. Later that day I posted an article about PowerShell on my weblog. http://weblog.stranger.nl/managing_systems_with_powershell
Hope it helps
Are you giving some session tomorrow on MMS 2007 where we can meet?
Regards,
Stefan Stranger
http://weblog.stranger.nl
Stefan,
Was good to see you and Ian at the party! Keep in touch guys! I hope PowerGUI helps you get more MOM guys use PowerShell.
Dmitry