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How to Get All Instances

Applies To: System Center 2012 - Service Manager

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The EnterpriseManagementGroup object that is used to connect to the server, has a property named EntityObjects. EntityObjects let you to read multiple objects from Service Manager by using the GetObjectReader method. GetObjectReader provides overloads that can get enterprise management objects by using a list of identifiers, the management pack class type of the objects, or by querying through criteria.

To obtain all instance of a management pack class

  1. Connect to the server by using the EnterpriseManagementGroup class.

  2. Obtain reference to the ManagementPackClass definition that you want to obtain all instances of.

  3. Call the method GetObjectReader implemented by the EntityObjects property. Provide the ManagementPackClass from the previous step.

  4. The result of the previous step will be a IObjectReader object. This object contains the ManagementPackClass object instances and can be enumerated.

Example

The following example obtains a management pack class from a management pack, and retrieves all instances of that class from Service Manager. The identifiers of the instances are added to a List object:

EnterpriseManagementGroup mg = new EnterpriseManagementGroup("localhost");
ManagementPack mp = mg.GetManagementPack("RePackaging.Library", null, new Version());
ManagementPackClass requestClass = mp.GetClass("RePackaging.Request");
IObjectReader<EnterpriseManagementObject> reader;
List<Guid> objectIds;

reader = mg.EntityObjects.GetObjectReader<EnterpriseManagementObject>(requestClass, ObjectQueryOptions.Default);
objectIds = new List<Guid>(reader.MaxCount);

foreach (var item in reader)
{
    objectIds.Add(item.Id);
}

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Namespaces

System

System.Collections.Generic

Microsoft.EnterpriseManagement

Microsoft.EnterpriseManagement.Common

Microsoft.EnterpriseManagement.Configuration

Assemblies

mscorlib

Microsoft.EnterpriseManagement.Core

See Also

Tasks

How to Create an Instance
How to Get a Single Instance
How to Query for Instances
How to Delete Instances

Reference

EnterpriseManagementGroup
EntityObjects
GetObjectReader
IObjectReader
ManagementPackClass

Other Resources

Scenario: Working with Instances