[OpsMgr 2007R2][OpsMgr 2012] Building groups in Operations Manager, with a bit of Orchestrator magic

Anders Bengtsson  has posted on April 2012 the 11th an article to show how to use Orchestrator to update a management pack that contains groups. Each time you run the runbook, a new version of your MP is generated and groups members are also updated.



In many scenarios you have a list of servers, a database query result or a place in your Active Directory that contains servers that you want to monitor in some special way. Often you need the machines in a group in Operations Manager so you can for example create overrides, maintenance mode and views for that group. It is a pretty boring work to build the group manually and then to keep the group updated.

A way to get the Operations Manager group in sync with the machine list is to use a runbook that creates a management pack including a group based on the list. This set of example runbooks reads a list of machine, creates a management pack with a group that includes the machines. The list of servers could be generated by another runbook or another tool. The last runbook also imports the management pack into Operations Manager.

Read more on http://contoso.se/blog/?p=2963

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