Adding UNIX agents via PowerShell

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10/16/2017

First, a shout out to Vanessa Bruwer @VanessaBruwer and Tyson Paul for their help!

Feel like I was pounding rocks, and had a great find! :-)

...How to add UNIX agents manually via command line

Required

1. Unix Agent action account and agent maintenance account ID and passwords
2. Unix Resource Pool name (use get-SCOMResourcePool)

Don't confuse the WSMAN login and use your MSAA ID

BTW, cmdlets exist with 2012R2 and 2016

From MS running PowerShell as admin

$MyPool = Get-SCOMResourcePool “UNIX/Linux Monitoring Resource Pool”
$SSHCredential = Get-SCXSSHCredential -UserName scom -ElevationType sudo
$WSCredential = Get-Credential scom

# Using MSAA account this fails

$DiscResult = Invoke-SCXDiscovery -Name "ubuntu.testlab.net" -ResourcePool $MyPool -WSManCredential $WSCredential -SSHCredential $SSHCredential

# Alternative Discovery for Network IP range
$DiscResult = Invoke-SCXDiscovery -IPRange 192.168.1.50,192.168.1.75 -ResourcePool $MyPool -WSManCredential $WSCredential -SSHCredential $SSHCredential

$DiscResult |fl -property *

$installResult = Install-SCXAgent -DiscoveryResult $DiscResult -Verbose
$installResult | fl -property *

Using MSAA account this fails