Using a Windows Powershell Monitor result to change a custom field

troyfred

So we have a program called Chef that manages our configurations. While we have a list of these servers, I would like to automate which servers do and do not have chef installed, adjust a custom field called Chef_Managed, then have the Chef alerts applied to them. I have the automation set up to apply out alerts to anything with Chef_Managed = Yes. I just need to know how to use the powershell output from the below code change that field

$installed = Get-WmiObject -Class Win32_Product | sort-object Name | select Name | where { $_.Name -match “Chef Client”}

if($installed.name -like "*Chef*"){

$Managed = "True"

}else{

$Managed = "False"

}

Write-Output "Chef Managed status $Managed"

mesverrum

Setting the property isn't really something you'd do inside a windows powershell monitor inside SAM, but you would be able to easily do it with a scheduled task in windows to run a regular powershell script to interacts with the api.

OrionSDK/CRUD.SettingCustomProperty.ps1 at master · solarwinds/OrionSDK · GitHub​ Powershell examples of how to manipulate custom properties

Just modify your first script to build an array of machines that are managed, take that array and match it to the list of servers in orion (probably matching on IP since that's mostly consistent)

For each node that is managed in part 1 and exists in orion  set the chef property to True