Powershell example for createing an ITOM Event

[Nigel S]

Is there an exanple for using PowerShell to create an ITOM event using the API via  a Mid Server?

[robertgeen]

Nigel,

I have an example somewhere but have to track it down. I'll try to find it by end of day and post an example here. Thanks.

[JF Muller · Accepted solution]

Hi Nigel,

Please find below an example:

function Get-BasicAuthCreds {
    param([string]$Username,[string]$Password)
    $AuthString = "{0}:{1}" -f $Username,$Password
    $AuthBytes  = [System.Text.Encoding]::Ascii.GetBytes($AuthString)
    return [Convert]::ToBase64String($AuthBytes)
}
$BasicCreds = Get-BasicAuthCreds -Username "evt.integration" -Password "ServiceN0w!"
$body = '{	"records":	
[
     {
     "source":"SCOM",
     "event_class":"SCOM 2007 on scom.server.com",
     "resource":"C:",
     "node":"name.of.node.com",
     "metric_name":"Percentage Logical Disk Free Space",
     "type":"Disk space",
     "severity":"4",
     "description":"The disk C: on computer V-W2K8-dfg.dfg.com is running out of disk space. The value that exceeded the threshold is 41% free space.",
     "additional_info":""
      }     
   ]
}'
Invoke-WebRequest -Uri "http://localhost:9082/api/mid/em/jsonv2" -Headers @{"Authorization"="Basic $BasicCreds"} -ContentType "application/json" -Method Post -Body $body

[Nigel S]

Thanks for this.

[natasciaheil]

I would recommend to directly write the event with the Table api into the event table:

# Eg. User name="admin", Password="admin" for this code sample.
$user = "admin"
$pass = "admin"

# Build auth header
$base64AuthInfo = [Convert]::ToBase64String([Text.Encoding]::ASCII.GetBytes(("{0}:{1}" -f $user, $pass)))

# Set proper headers
$headers = New-Object "System.Collections.Generic.Dictionary[[String],[String]]"
$headers.Add('Authorization',('Basic {0}' -f $base64AuthInfo))
$headers.Add('Accept','application/json')
$headers.Add('Content-Type','application/json')

# Specify endpoint uri
$uri = "https://xxx.service-now.com/api/now/table/em_event"

# Specify HTTP method
$method = "post"

# Specify request body
{request.body ? "$body = \"" :""}}{\"source\":\"SCOM\",\"event_class\":\"SCOM 2007 on scom.server.com\",\"resource\":\"C:\",\"node\":\"name.of.node.com\",\"metric_name\":\"Percentage Logical Disk Free Space\",\"type\":\"Disk space\",\"severity\":\"4\",\"description\":\"The disk C: on computer V-W2K8-dfg.dfg.com is running out of disk space. The value that exceeded the threshold is 41% free space.\"}"

# Send HTTP request
$response = Invoke-WebRequest -Headers $headers -Method $method -Uri $uri -Body $body

# Print response
$response.RawContent

Regards,

Natascia