New OM2012 PowerShell Function (Remove-SCOMRule)

Today I got a question from my fellow Premier Field Engineer Anders Bengtsson if I could help him with an OpsMgr PowerShell script he was creating for an Orchestrator Runbook he started to create. And while waiting for a PowerShell workshop I was about to deliver I booted my OM2012 servers and had a look at his PowerShell script.

He wanted to be able to delete an OpsMgr Rule using PowerShell. As you may know there is no Remove-SCOMRule Cmdlet or function available in the PowerShell OperationsManager Module. Let’s check to be sure.

No, we can disable, enable and get a SCOMRule but there is no Remove-SCOMRule Cmdlet.

So, if there is none, let’s create one!

First let’s have a look at the parameters for the Get-SCOMRule, we may could use the same parameters in our Remove-SCOMRule Function.

 Get-Help Get-SCOMRule -Detailed

 

Looking at the list of parameters the Get-SCOMRule is using we start simple using the DisplayName and Name parameters for our new Remove-SCOMRule function.

Here is a function you can use and tweak to Remove SCOM Rules in your OM2012 environment.

 <#
.Synopsis
   Removes a list of monitoring rules.
.DESCRIPTION
   The Remove-SCOMRule removes a list of monitoring rules.
.EXAMPLE
   Remove-SCOMRule -DisplayName "test rule"
.EXAMPLE
   Get-SCOMRule -Name "MomUIGeneratedRule2c30f12ddfb6493fbd0c92e41db94495" | Remove-SCOMRule -Verbose

#>
function Remove-SCOMRule
{
    [CmdletBinding(SupportsShouldProcess=$true)]
    Param
    (
        # Specifies the name of the object
        [Parameter(Mandatory=$true,
                   ValueFromPipelineByPropertyName=$true,
                   Position=0)]
        [string[]]$Name,

        # Specifies the displayname of the object
        [Parameter(Mandatory=$false,
                   ValueFromPipelineByPropertyName=$false,
                   Position=1)]
        [string]$dislayname
    )

    Begin
    {
        Write-Verbose "Starting Function Remove-SCOMRule"


    }
    Process
    {
        #Create Hashtable for Get-SCOMRule Cmdlet parameters
        if ($name)
        {
            $parms = @{'name'=$name}
        }
        else
        {
            $parms = @{'displayname'=$displayname}
        }
        
        Write-Debug "`$parms: $parms"

        $Rule = Get-SCOMRule @parms
        Write-Verbose "Removing Rule: $($Rule.DisplayName)"
        $MP = Get-SCOMManagementPack -Name ($Rule.ManagementPackName)
        $MPObject = $MP.FindManagementPackElementByName($Rule.Name);
        $MPObject.Status = [Microsoft.EnterpriseManagement.Configuration.ManagementPackElementStatus]::PendingDelete
        $MP.AcceptChanges()

    }
    End
    {
        Write-Verbose "Finished Function Remove-SCOMRule"
    }
}

How to use this function?

1. Save the above PowerShell Function in a script.
2. Dot source (dot space scriptname location) the script where you have stored above function. And look at the help.

 

Now we can use the Get-SCOMRule Cmdlet to retrieve the Rule and pipe it to the Remove-SCOMRule Function. You can even remove multiple Rule in one go if you retrieve multiple rules using the Get-SCOMRule Cmdlet.

 

Remarks:

• Function only work when the OperationsManager Powershell module is loaded in PowerShell session.

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Comments

• Anonymous
  January 01, 2003
  Hi Mike, If I find some time I'll try to create a remove-scomoverride function if you want. /Stefan

• Anonymous
  May 10, 2013
  Very nice. Then we only need one to remove an override made to a specific rule :-)

• Anonymous
  August 21, 2016
  Hello,Can we use this trick to remove SCOMMonitor as well if yes how we can do that.