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A customer request had me looking around the support community of one of our community sponsors - Quest. (The site is management-extensions.org). While I was there, I ran across something that raises some interesting possibilities for audible alarms using the OpsMgr Command Notification Channel. This would be especially with remoting in Powershell 2.0 so we could execute the audible alarm on a system that is NOT the RMS.
Gary Broadwater (eXc-turned-Quest architect) posted the most simple Powershell snippet HERE.
If you save this as a text_to_speech.ps1 file and pass a text string to it, your computer will recite the words. Text-to-speech in 3 lines. They don't call it Powershell for nothing.
################################
# Company: Quest Software
# Author: Gary Broadwater
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$q = new-object -com SAPI.SpVoice
$q.speak($args)
$q = $null
Sample Run
I ran exactly this on my computer, and I could make the words out very clearly!
.\text_to_speech.ps1 Quest extends system center to the non-windows world!
Calling the script remotely from the RMS
Then, from your OpsMgr RMS, you could use the notification command channel to call the remote script. I have Powershell 2.0 running on an OpsMgr lab server, so I would expect this should be okay, but you'd want to test carefully I think. I don't think I'd do this without Powershell 2.0, because you need it for remoting to avoid running this on the RMS. Here's PoSh 2.0 syntax to do it.
invoke-command -computername RemoteAlertComputer -filepath c:\Scripts\text_to_speech.ps1
NOTE: You could work out how to pass the OpsMgr alert description with the standard XPath as a script argument, but I think this would work best with a short message hard-coded in the script.
And a Personal Comment on Quest
I have talked with the technical folks at Quest about what they're doing with PRO and virtualization, application virtualization, extending Configuration Manager to support non-Windows systems, and they are working on some pretty cool answers for difficult technology and business problems. I have to say I am genuinely excited to see what develops. And I want to add this personal note about the tech support I've received from these guys. In short, the best of any ISV I have worked with. Gary, Tony and gang have delivered for me whenever I needed an assist.
Take a look at the ways Quest extends System Center at http://www.quest.com/system-center/
Visit the Quest Heterogeniuses Blog
