Tips and Tricks: Service Manager 2012 – Useful commands to view XML and Projection Type

Thanks to Chris Ross of SCSM.US for sharing this great information! Here are a few little queries you can use to get some good information for use within ServiceMgr: From SQL if you want to view a MP’s xml…   function Format-XML ([xml]$xml, $indent=2) {     $StringWriter = New-Object System.IO.StringWriter     $XmlWriter = New-Object System.XMl.XmlTextWriter $StringWriter     $xmlWriter.Formatting =…

OpsMgr 2012: Live Maps 2012 – Initial installation and creation of a Domain Controller Live Map View

1. Download from here: · http://www.savision.com/download 2. Run the executable LiveMaps2012_V1011.exe 3. Click Run, at the Security Warning 4. The installer will extract the files for use during the Install 5. At the LiveMaps 2012 installation splash screen, click ‘Install Live Maps Authoring Console’ 6. At the Welcome page, click Next 7. At the License…

Adding Unix/Linux computers as CI’s in Service Manager (#SCOM, #SCSM, #SYSCTR)

During a recent conversation on Configuration Manager 2012 SP1 with Unix/Linux agents it was discussed that Unix/Linux agents cannot currently be added to Service Manager as Configuration Items (CI’s). That’s ok, we can use Operations Manager’s connector to create CI’s for Unix/Linux agents from Operations Manager. Here’s the steps required:   (1) Find out what…