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Has anyone automated monthly base lines in SCM?

I know its not hard to manually do it. We have multiple environments and I would much rather automate it so we know its done and not delayed because someone forgot (me).

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Hi there,

This is a pretty cool idea so I made a quick proof of concept:

In the alert trigger, you want a custom SWQL to return all devices with a baseline older than 1 month:

SELECT Nodes.Uri, Nodes.DisplayName FROM Orion.Nodes AS Nodes
left join Orion.SCM.Baseline scb on nodes.nodeid = scb.nodeid
where scb.TimeStamp < ADDMONTH(-1,GetDate())

Then the action would be running an external program:

powershell.exe -file "C:\SolarWindsScripts\SCMbaselineautomation.ps1" ${N=SwisEntity;M=NodeID}

And the PS script looks like this:

$orionuser = 'XXXXX'
$orionpass = 'XXXXX'
$swis = Connect-Swis -Hostname 'localhost' -UserName $orionuser -Password $orionpass
$date = Get-Date
$nodeid = $args[0]
Invoke-SwisVerb -EntityName Orion.scm.baseline -Verb setbaseline -SwisConnection $swis -Arguments @($nodeid, $date)

I'm sure there's more that can be added but that works for now.

Kind regards,

Marlie Fancourt - SolarWinds Pre-Sales Manager

Prosperon Networks - SolarWinds Partner since 2006

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