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re: Boris’s OpsMgr Tools – Updated

Daniele Muscetta — Tue, 14 May 2013 17:22:16 GMT

Ok, guys - I gave in to all the comments, and also posted OverrideCreator. Enjoy!

re: Get-WmiCustom (aka: Get-WMIObject with timeout!)

Daniele Muscetta — Tue, 14 May 2013 16:30:07 GMT

@Liam - this function was originally written to work on Powershell v1 - there was no Try/Catch support in Powershell at the time - hence the use of trap for error handling. On v2/3 there will of course be more elegant ways.

re: Get-WmiCustom (aka: Get-WMIObject with timeout!)

Liam — Tue, 14 May 2013 13:51:43 GMT

Ok sorted it at the top of the function I placed:

$ErrorActionPreference = "Stop"

Then I wrapped your functions code in a try{} and then used the catch{} to handle the errors as required.

re: Get-WmiCustom (aka: Get-WMIObject with timeout!)

Daniele Muscetta — Wed, 01 May 2013 16:07:40 GMT

@laderio - not sure... either you are passing a wrong server name, or there is a firewall in between.

@Laurie - Yes I am still around. The BEST solution is to make sure that WMI actually works on all your machines. That way you don't have to worry about timeouts as data will eventually come. Unfortunately in the past I have seen situations where WMI was broken on some customers machines and I had to run my collection tool on them but was not allowed to fix or modify anything: for me at the time was preferable to collect partial information (and know that some machines were broken) rather than blocking my whole data collection exercise forever...

re: Get-WmiCustom (aka: Get-WMIObject with timeout!)

Laurie — Wed, 01 May 2013 13:14:52 GMT

Hi, very useful little function. I know I'm a few years behind this being posted, so hopefully you're still around. My question here is, how would I use your function when I need to run a query? this is the get-wmi I'm using...

$LogFiles = Get-Wmiobject -computername $Server -Query "Select * from CIM_DataFile Where Drive = '$LogDrive' And Path = '$LogQueryPath' And Extension = 'log'" | Sort LastModified

problem is, run time can vary greatly depending on the number of logs which could be anywhere from less than 10 to somewhere in the hundreds of thousands and I can't have an excessive run time...

re: Get-WmiCustom (aka: Get-WMIObject with timeout!)

laderio — Fri, 05 Apr 2013 09:01:55 GMT

So I stopped the time:

First timeout message after 20 seconds.

Second timeout message after another 20 seconds.

Exception calling "Connect" with "0" argument(s): "The RPC server is unavailable. (Exception from HRESULT: 0x800706BA)"

At line:9 char:5

+ $Scope.Connect()

+ ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

+ CategoryInfo : NotSpecified: (:) [], MethodInvocationException

+ FullyQualifiedErrorId : COMException

Exception calling "Get" with "0" argument(s): "The RPC server is unavailable. (Exception from HRESULT: 0x800706BA)"

At line:17 char:17

+ trap { $_ } $result = $searcher.get()

+ ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

+ CategoryInfo : NotSpecified: (:) [], MethodInvocationException

+ FullyQualifiedErrorId : COMException

re: Boris’s OpsMgr Tools – Updated

Daniele Muscetta — Fri, 22 Mar 2013 03:53:34 GMT

Jon - MPviewer has had some limited command line support for years, but only for HTML export.

All you have to pass is the full path to the MP file as first parameter, and the full path of the HTML file as second one, i.e.

C:\MPViewer.exe "C:\SampleMP.mp" "C:\SampleMPReport.html"

The way this is done in the code is a little bit hacky at the moment, and would require some amount of refactoring to make it more elegant and support both HTML and/or Excel. I have been thinking about it but haven't had time to improve it that way.

re: Boris’s OpsMgr Tools – Updated

Jon Sykes — Fri, 22 Mar 2013 03:42:15 GMT

Hey Daniele, thanks for your work on updating these tools. They are very helpful.

I am wondering if mpviewer 2.2.1 has command line support? It doesn't appear to however I just wanted confirmation because I have a specific need to export a lot of MPs to excel for different customers.

re: OpsMgr Event IDs Spreadsheet

Daniele Muscetta — Sat, 16 Feb 2013 05:51:42 GMT

Mayson - I compiled this list 3 years ago... I know it does not include several event sources, like the cross-platform ones. Also, new event ID's and sources have probably been added or could have changed with cumulative updates or add-ons, connectors and what not. Surely many of these are also different in OpsMgr 2012. I am not sure what event you are looking for: just an EventID without an EventSource/Publisher tells me very little, and I don't have access to 2007R2 systems anymore to go and dig more recent info out.... I would encourage you to use EventLog Explorer yourself - it's linked in the post.

re: OpsMgr Event IDs Spreadsheet

Mayson_A — Fri, 15 Feb 2013 08:39:07 GMT

Great doc to have. However there is no event for the following: 18930

Thanks for your help