Administrative Tasks Automation

Additional Information About Microsoft PowerShell

Innovator-PowerShell-Script-Library

The PowerShell scripts included within scope of delivery with Innovator are digitally signed by MID and can be be used with the policies "Unrestricted", "RemoteSigned" and "AllSigned".

The Innovator script library is installed with each client or server component installation. The functions provided check the existing rights in the user management, if these are applicable.

The script library for Linux systems has a reduced range of functions specific to Windows. The following are missing:

• Get-InnoService

• Set-InnoService

• Start-InnoService

• Stop-InnoService

• Update-InnoDataDirectory

• Export-InnoModelData

Basic Commands

• Loading the Innovator Module

  • Alternative A: Generally with PSModulePath (see Microsoft: Basics of PSModulePath)

    1. Create an MID.Innovator.PowerShell directory in the desired module directory (e.g. in C:\Program Files\WindowsPowerShell\Modules)

    2. Run as administrator in a Windows command prompt:

       mklink /J "<module directory>\MID.Innovator.PowerShell\16.1" "C:\Program Files\Innovator\16.1"

  • Alternative B: Explicitly at the start of every script

    Import module 'C:\Program Files\Innovator\16.1\mid.innovator.powershell.psd1'

• List all available commands

  Get-Command -Module mid.innovator.powershell

• Get help and examples of a command

  Get-Help Get-InnoLicenseServer -Detailed

Examples

• List all managed models

  Get-InnoLicenseServer -InoHost <license server>.16100 | Get-InnoManagedModel

• List of all model versions with formatting as table

  Get-InnoLicenseServer -InoHost <license server>.16100 | Get-InnoManagedModelVersion | Format-Table

• List of all managed models, grouped according to managed model

  Get-InnoLicenseServer -InoHost <license server>.16100 | Get-InnoManagedModelVersion | Select-Object -Property Name, Version, Type, IsRunning | Sort-Object -Property Name, Version, Type | Format-Table -GroupBy Name

• List of all model abc* back-ups not currently running

  Get-InnoLicenseServer -InoHost <license server>.16100 | Get-InnoManagedModelVersion -ModelName abc* | Where-Object{($_.IsRunning -eq $false) -and ($_.Type -eq 'Backup')}

• Start all model abc* back-ups of back-ups not currently running

  Get-InnoLicenseServer -InoHost <license server>.16100 | Get-InnoManagedModelVersion -ModelName abc* | Where-Object{($_.IsRunning -eq $false) -and ($_.Type -eq 'Backup')} | Start-InnoManagedModelVersion

• List of all resource constraints for managed models

  Get-InnoManagedModel -InoHost <license server>.16100 | Get-InnoResourceQuota

• List of all locally set-up Innovator agent services

  Get-InnoService -ServiceProgram inoagent

• Set all locally set-up Innovator agent services to "manual"

  Get-InnoService -ServiceProgram inoagent | Set-InnoService -StartType Manual

Searching for Model Elements