Quick Access to OpsMgr Agent Information

Sometimes you need access to some information from Opsmgr in a hurry and you really do not want to open up the Ops Console and wait for it to load.

Here is a powershell script that extracts information from OpsMgr and drops it into several HTML files so it can be added to a website.
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The pages created are the following

AgentsCounts.html - This gives give you a count of the number of agents per management group and breaks this down also by per management server

MonitoredServers.html - This page gives a complete list of all the agents being monitored by Opsmgr.

ServersDown.html - This gives a list of servers that may be down. It is actually a list of servers where the health service watcher is in an "Error" state.

AgentsLast7days.html - This is a list of all agents installed in the last 7 days, when they were installed and includes their health state

The script does require some configuration before it can be used:

1) At the very start of the script you have to enter the name of the Root Management Server. You can uncomment the next lines lines and define multiple RMS's if you want to pull the information from more than 1 management group.

2) $outpath = "c:\" - Change this to where you want the script to write the html files.

3) If connecting to more than one management group you need to comment out line 17 and uncomment Line 19

Updated Agent Maintenance Mode

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Updated version of this MP at http://derekhar.blogspot.com/2009/11/new-agent-maintenance-mode.html

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There is a new version of my Maintenance Mode MP and scripts that can do maintenance mode from the Agent with no extras installed (The original post is here). The 4 files are available for download from http://cid-397bb61b75cc76c5.skydrive.live.com/browse.aspx/Public/AgentMaintModeV2?view=details

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EDIT

Be aware the PowerShell execution policy might block the script from being run.

You may need to do the following:
1. Open the Command Shell, and do "set-executionpolicy remotesigned" (using "allsigned" may be considered a bit more secure.
2. Right-click on the .ps1 files, chose properties and click "Unblock" especially if you've downloaded these scripts using Internet Explorer.

Thanks to Marco for catching this. I had a few people contact with with the earlier version not working and I could never figure out why. Could be the same reason.

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This version adds the ability to turn off maintenance mode from the agent as well as turn it on. The vbscript has been updated with some more options and some instructions on how to use it.

To install or update you need to import the management pack and copy the 2 ps1 files to System Center Operations Manager 2007 program folder on the RMS.

Then you need to copy the vbscript file to any agent managed server and run it to set any server in maintenance mode for the desired time period.

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VBScript Usage:

Usage: MaintMode ON|OFF [ON Duration][D][H][M]

Examples: MaintMode ON 6H
MaintMode ON 2D

ON is a mandatory keyword to put a server in maintenance mode.

ON Duration is number of [D]ays [M]inutes or [H]ours Maintenance
Mode should remain ON.

If not specified, the default is 6 hours.
This means Maintenance mode will turn itself OFF after 6 hours.

If ON Duration is specified without [D][H][M], the number is
interpreted as hours.

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This MP creates a new class which contains all Windows Operating Systems. There are 2 rules in this class. One listens for the Maint Mode ON event and the other listens for the Maint Mode OFF event. The script on the RMS that turns on Maintenance Mode actually turns it on for all the components of the server and then turns it off again only for the Maint Mode class. This means that even in Maint Mode it can listen for the OFF event.

NOTE: The discovery for this class runs every 12 hours so be aware that systems may take this long after install for the scripts to work

Thanks again to Boris for his examples and scripts for doing maintenance mode.