I've been wanting to try using PowerShell to do advanced system monitoring, but only got around to it this week.
One of the first things to do was to test how PowerShell could interface with the HP OVO Windows agent.
I found out recently that version 7.20 or newer of the Windows based agents had a automation library included, aka COM interface (I hope I'm using the terms properly).
I first tried to load the automation library straight from PowerShell, but that failed:
PSH> $ovo=new-object -com ovoautomation.opcmsg
PSH> $ovo|gm
TypeName: System.__ComObject#{bb03cab1-2606-4388-bbbc-2b5af2321464}
Name MemberType Definition
---- ---------- ----------
Send Method void Send ()
Application Property {get} {set}
MessageGroup Property {get} {set}
MessageId Property string MessageId () {get}
MessageText Property {get} {set}
NodeName Property {get} {set}
Object Property {get} {set}
OptVar Property {get} {set}
ServiceName Property {get} {set}
Severity Property {get} {set}
PSH> $ovo.messagetext="testing"
Exception setting "MessageText": "Type mismatch. (Exception from HRESULT:
0x80020005 (DISP_E_TYPEMISMATCH))"
At line:1 char:6
+ $ovo.m <<<< essagetext="testing"
PSH>
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You'll note that 'Definition' section doesn't look very complete if compared to the IE COM object. I don't know if that makes a difference.
OK, so that doesn't work...
I went to the HP ITRC forums and asked whether anyone had tried using the OVO agents with PowerShell. Drew Dimmick replied that he was getting the same error, but also pointed out a link to www.ovinternals.com (free account required to download), where there was a managed code assembly available that exposes the OVO agent API. I retrieved the OVAgent.zip file and tried it out... It worked perfectly:
PSH>[void][reflection.assembly]::loadfrom("$($pwd.path)\ovagent.dll")
PSH>$ovo=new-object ovinternals.ovagent.submitmessage
PSH>$ovo.group="testing"
PSH>$ovo.send("normal","app","obj","text")
PSH>$ovo.lastsentmessageid
f6df8000-d938-71db-1286-ac1dd0640000
PSH>
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I only tried the messaging inteface, but it also appears you have an API for CODA performance logging, as well as an API for the monitoring agent (opcmona).
