Service Management Automation

This module is reworked from the version posted by Eamon O’Reily on the technet gallery.

https://gallery.technet.microsoft.com/scriptcenter/Sample-PowerShell-module-8d961a1c/view/Discussions#content

Microsoft’s Web Platform installer provides the ability of installing web based components onto Windows Platforms.  The technology is simple to use and works well when a machine has access to the internet.  When the machine being installed don’t have access to the internet the installer becomes a problem.

In a previous example, I gave an example of running a simple Service Management Automation runbook using REST.  This blog demonstrates how to retrieve output from a called runbook by using platform independent REST calls against the SMA Server. 

Four steps exist in obtaining the output from an SMA Runbook:   

Service Management Automation Runbooks are PowerShell workflows.  Workflows allow parameters to be passed in at the time of execution and are essential to any infrastructure automation.