SCOM2007: How to document your SCOM Installation

This blog post is part of a series how to backup your SCOM environment.

You can find the other parts here:

After we have backed up all the other necessary bits of our environment in the previous blog posts just a little more bits remain to make sure we can successfully restore our environment when there has been a disaster.

Document your Scom installation

This can save you a lot of time and can even be useful when you just have to pull up a report on what actually get’s monitored in the environment.

I’ve based my script on a nice blog post of Kristoper Bash which can be found here:

http://operatingquadrant.com/2009/08/19/scom-automating-management-pack-documentation/

I’ve adapted the script so it will be in line with the script I uses in this post: How to backup your unsealed management packs

You could combine the 2 into 1 script but for now I’ll leave them separate just in case you only need to document the environment instead of backing up + documenting everything.

The script, open the pictures to read out or download the script here: List mp script download location

The markings in yellow you need to modify to your own liking + environment.

Variables to change in the next session:

$locationroot: This will be the root folder in which the folders with the date as name will be stored

$outFile: Here you can change the filename. The filename consists out of “a name you choose”_”date of today”.html

Note that in the next session the mailing capability is completely commented. If you would like to send out a mail with the result of the script you can just uncomment and thus activate this feature by removing the ‘#’ in front of each line.

Variables to change in the next session:

$Sender: This will be the sender of the mail to notify you whether it has been successfully finished.
$OKRecipient: Specify the email address to where the mail in case of ok needs to be sent.
$ErrRecipient: Specifiy the email address to where the mail in case of error needs to be sent.
smtpserver: fill in the smtp server used to send out mails in your environment.

Schedule this with a scheduled task in windows on your RMS and you’re ready to go.

Tip: If you need both the documentation and the backup you could combine this script with the script I featured in this post: How to backup your unsealed management packs

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