en/about_OpsMgr_Connections.help.txt
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about_OpsMgr_Connections SHORT DESCRIPTION Describes the types of management group connections that you can create when using the Operations Manager Shell. LONG DESCRIPTION To use the System Center Operations Manager 2012 cmdlets, you need to establish a connection to an Operations Manager management group. There are two types of connections that you can establish: persistent and temporary. If you have not previously used the Operations Console, the first time you use the command shell you will be prompted for the name of a management server to connect to. If you have used either the Operations Console or the command shell before, the command shell will attempt to connect to the last management server to which it had successfully connected. PERSISTENT CONNECTIONS To create a persistent management group connection, use the New-SCOMManagementGroupConnection cmdlet. You can establish multiple management group connections, but only one can be active at a time. To set an active connection, use the Set-SCOMManagementGroupConnection cmdlet. You can also use Set-SCOMManagementGroupConnection to change which management group connection is the active connection. After you have set an active connection, all cmdlets that you run will use this connection by default. To see which connection is the active connection, use the Get-SCOMManagementGroupConnection cmdlet. This cmdlet lists all established management group connections and identifies the active connection. TEMPORARY CONNECTIONS You can create a temporary connection to a management group that is not the active management group connection by using the ComputerName and Credential parameters for a cmdlet. If you do not specify credentials, the user's security context is used. OPENING THE OPERATIONS MANAGER SHELL FROM THE OPERATIONS CONSOLE You can open the Operations Manager Shell from the Operations Console by using the following method: right-click an object in the user interface, click Open, and then click Operations Manager Shell. When you use this method to open the command shell, the user interface passes the object's instance ID to the command shell as an argument. After the command shell opens, it establishes a connection to the management server, and then and runs the following command: Get-SCOMClassInstance -ID [Id of the selected object] You will see the command written to the console before it is run. The instance returned from this cmdlet is stored in a variable named $context. You can use the $context variable within that PowerShell session to take actions on the object. SEE ALSO New-SCOMManagementGroupConnection Get-SCOMManagementGroupConnection set-SCOMManagementGroupConnection Remove-SCOMManagementGroupConnection about_OpsMgr_WhatsNew |