Automating port monitoring using PowerShell

A while I wrote a blog entry about how you can automate the creation of URL monitoring logic in OpsMgr using PowerShell. One of the questions I have received is "how do you do the same thing for port monitoring ?". Attached is a script that demonstrates how this can be done.

In order to run the script, you need to open the OpsMgr Command Shell and run the following:

CreatePortMonitoring.ps1 -serverName:'TargetServerName.contoso.com' -portNumber:'80' -pollIntervalSeconds:'120' -watcherNodes:"watcher1.contoso.com", "watcher2.contoso.com" -displayName:'Test URL monitoring' -targetMP:'Port Monitoring MP'

Note: If you specify the interval less than 1 minute, the monitoring should still work but you will not be able to load the configuration page and will see a UI error.....

In one of my future posts I will try to explain how this scripts works for those of you who want to automate execution of MP templates.

CreatePortMonitoring.ps1.zip

Comments

• Anonymous
  June 20, 2008
  PingBack from http://blog.a-foton.ru/2008/06/21/automating-port-monitoring-using-powershell/
• Anonymous
  June 21, 2008
  This is so sweet! This new version of MP Viewer allows you to export data to Excel in addition to the
• Anonymous
  June 23, 2008
  Nice job! Post: http://blogs.msdn.com/boris_yanushpolsky/archive/2008/06/20/automating-port-monitoring
• Anonymous
  June 24, 2008
  Can you provide the one for a Windows Service using the Management Pack Template?  I think that one would be the most valuable as I have 217 services in my environment..  
• Anonymous
  June 24, 2008
  Hi JoeC,Can you send me an email offline with info about the services you need to monitor. There might be some other solutions.
• Anonymous
  August 21, 2008
  Check out Boris Yanushpolsky's blog ( http://blogs.msdn.com/boris_yanushpolsky ). Boris is an SCOM
• Anonymous
  March 24, 2009
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