From: admin@lists.myITforum.com [mailto:admin@lists.myITforum.com] On Behalf Of Pete Zerger
Sent: Monday, December 29, 2008 5:59 PM
To: msmom@lists.myitforum.com
Subject: Re: [msmom] using OPSMgr for server documentation

This can be a bit involved in Powershell. We demonstrate a server inventory report for Dell Servers in the following post in a series on exploring discovered inventory with Powershell. Some notes on what you'd have to do for VM guests running Windows is below.

http://www.systemcenterforum.org/news/part-4-exploring-discovery-data-with-the-opsmgr-command-shell-dell-server-inventory-report/

You can simply replace the following string in the example 

 "where {$_.Name -like 'Dell.*' }"

with

 where {$_.Name -match 'Microsoft.Windows.Server.2003.OperatingSystem' }" 

and view the output of this, where you will find several properties populated, but some items, such as processor and disk details not in this class.  To retrieve a full server inventory, you would have to retrieve the properties of the object classes of interest hosted by the Windows OS. More simply replace the class name to create a separate inventory for given servers for items such as logical disk.

Regards,

Pete Zerger, MS-MVP - Operations Manager 2007
Founder, System Center Forum: http://www.systemcenterforum.org
Founder System Center Virtual User Group http://www.systemcenterusergroup.com