How to Approve Manual Agent Installations
Applies To: Operations Manager 2007 R2, Operations Manager 2007 SP1, System Center Operations Manager 2007
If you do not need to fully automate the deployment of agents but you still want to automate the approval of manually deployed agents, you can query the pending actions that require approval, and then approve them by using the Operations Manager class libraries.
Example
The following example demonstrates how to approve a pending action that adds a computer with a manually installed agent to the Management Group. Other types of pending actions can be approved in a similar manner.
/// <summary>
/// Allows all computers with a manually installed agent
/// to join the Management Group.
/// </summary>
using System;
using System.Collections.Generic;
using System.Collections.ObjectModel;
using Microsoft.EnterpriseManagement;
using Microsoft.EnterpriseManagement.Administration;
using Microsoft.EnterpriseManagement.Common;
using Microsoft.EnterpriseManagement.Configuration;
using Microsoft.EnterpriseManagement.Monitoring;
using System.Text;
namespace SDKSamples
{
class Program
{
static void Main(string[] args)
{
Console.WriteLine("Approving manual agent installations.");
ManagementGroup mg = new ManagementGroup("localhost");
ManagementGroupAdministration mga = mg.GetAdministration();
ReadOnlyCollection<AgentPendingAction> pendingActions = mga.GetAgentPendingActions();
if (pendingActions.Count == 0)
{
Console.WriteLine("There are no pending actions for this Management Group.");
return;
}
List<AgentPendingAction> approvedActions = new List<AgentPendingAction>();
foreach (AgentPendingAction action in pendingActions)
{
// Approve pending actions only for manually installed agents.
if (action.AgentPendingActionType == AgentPendingActionType.ManualApproval)
{
Console.WriteLine("Agent " + action.AgentName + " waiting for approval...");
approvedActions.Add(action);
Console.WriteLine(action.AgentName + " has been approved.");
}
}
try
{
mga.ApproveAgentPendingActions(approvedActions);
}
catch (UnknownServiceException e)
{
Console.WriteLine("No agents were approved (possibly because no agents were waiting for approval).");
}
}
}
}
' Allows all computers with a manually installed agent
' to join the Management Group.
Imports System
Imports System.Collections.Generic
Imports System.Collections.ObjectModel
Imports Microsoft.EnterpriseManagement
Imports Microsoft.EnterpriseManagement.Administration
Imports Microsoft.EnterpriseManagement.Common
Imports Microsoft.EnterpriseManagement.Configuration
Imports Microsoft.EnterpriseManagement.Monitoring
Imports System.Text
Namespace SDKSamples
Class Program
Public Overloads Shared Function Main(ByVal args() As String) As Integer
Console.WriteLine("Approving manual agent installations.")
Dim mg As ManagementGroup = New ManagementGroup("localhost")
Dim mga As ManagementGroupAdministration = mg.GetAdministration()
Dim pendingActions As ReadOnlyCollection(Of AgentPendingAction) = mga.GetAgentPendingActions()
If pendingActions.Count = 0 Then
Console.WriteLine("There are no pending actions for this Management Group.")
Return 1
End If
Dim approvedActions As List(Of AgentPendingAction) = New List(Of AgentPendingAction)()
Dim action As AgentPendingAction
For Each action In pendingActions
' Approve pending actions only for manually installed agents.
If action.AgentPendingActionType = AgentPendingActionType.ManualApproval Then
Console.WriteLine("Agent " & action.AgentName & " waiting for approval...")
approvedActions.Add(action)
Console.WriteLine(action.AgentName & " has been approved.")
End If
Next
Try
mga.ApproveAgentPendingActions(approvedActions)
Catch e As UnknownServiceException
Console.WriteLine("No agents were approved (possibly because no agents were waiting for approval).")
End Try
End Function
End Class
End Namespace
See Also
Tasks
How to Install, Remove, or Repair an Agent