Any example for Timed ShellScript Discovery with PowerShell Discovery Probe?

Question

Hi all,
Kris Bash provided a unix authoring library with many examples for dynamic discoveries for Unix/Linux (Unix/Linux Authoring
Library). What I am missing here is a timed shell script discovery, using a powershell discovery probe for creating discovery data. There is only a PropertyBag Discovery available.
Maybe one of you has already implemented such a discovery and can provide this as an example? I tried some things but so far it is not working.
The idea behind this is to execute a shell script on a linux host that returns several lines. The output should then be parsed by a powershell script that - depending on the output - creates different class instances. Any ideas?
Regards,
Holger

Answer 1

Holger,
See the blog post here (http://operatingquadrant.com/2011/03/24/operations-manager-%e2%80%93-extending-unixlinux-monitoring-with-mp-authoring-%e2%80%93-part-iii/)
for an example of using the PowerShellDiscoveryProbe.  It doesn't matter whether this follows a Shell Command or a Shell Script probe, as in both cases you are passing the StdOut output as a parameter to the PowerShell script.  You would parse StdOut
just as you do in the PropertyBag examples, but use the MOMApi calls to create and return the class instances and properties.
I hope this helps,
Kris
www.operatingquadrant.com