Install Orion Agent with Invoke-SwisVerb

There's some sample code for this on OrionSDK/Samples/PowerShell/DeployAgentViaVerb.ps1 at master · solarwinds/OrionSDK (github.com).

I got it figured out.  I had some weird errors but was able to get it running

I got it figured out.  I had some weird errors but was able to get it running

hi TheSurfingDBA  is it possible to share powershel script, i am trying same but getting following error,

"Invoke-SwisVerb -SwisConnection $SwisConnection -EntityName "Orion.AgentManagement.Agent" -Verb "Deploy" -Arguments ($pollingEngineId,$agentName, $hostname,$ipAddress,$machineUserName,$machinePassword,$additionalUsername,$additionalPassword,$passwordIsPrivateKey,$privateKeyPassword,$agentMode,$installPackageFallbackId)
"

 Invoke-SwisVerb : One or more errors occurred.

At C:\Script-Tools\Deploy_of_agentbase_device.ps1:42 char:1
+ Invoke-SwisVerb -SwisConnection $SwisConnection -EntityName "Orion.Ag ...
+ ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
+ CategoryInfo : InvalidOperation: (:) [Invoke-SwisVerb], FaultException`1
+ FullyQualifiedErrorId : SwisError,SwisPowerShell.InvokeSwisVerb

He is the script I wrote minus any credential info

<#
# Load SwisPowerShell
Import-Module SwisPowerShell

# connect to SWIS - use your connection details and credentials
$username = ""
$password = ""
$swis = Connect-Swis -Hostname <IP of Orion Server > -Credential ( Get-Credential -UserName $username -Message "Enter your Orion Credentials" )

#>



# =============================================================================
# Windows or Linux machine - define just username and password
# =============================================================================

$servers = Get-content C:\<path to list of server >\Servers.txt


$DebugPreference = 'SilentlyContinue'
$ErrorActionPreference = "stop"

foreach($server in $Servers)
    {
try{   

write-host "installing agent on $server " -ForegroundColor Yellow -BackgroundColor green

    $engineId = 1
    $agentName = "OrionAgent_PS_Install_$($server)"
    $hostname = "$($server)"
    $machineUsername = "<Domain Account>"
    $machinePassword = "<PWD>"
    $Ip = $hostname


Invoke-SwisVerb -swisconnection $swis -entityName Orion.AgentManagement.Agent -verb  Deploy -arguments @(
    $engineId,`
    $agentName,`
    $hostname,`
    $Ip,`
    $machineUsername,`
    $machinePassword)

} ##Try block
    catch [Exception] 
    {

       #General Failure
            Write-Host GENERAL FAILURE! for  $($hostname) -ForegroundColor Red
            <#When I want to know the full exception type:#>
            $errormessage =   $Error[0].Exception.Message  -replace "'",""  
            Write-Host $errormessage -BackgroundColor darkblue -ForegroundColor Red
    } ##Catch block
} ##Foreach block 

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