The xSCSMA module is a part of the Windows PowerShell Desired State Configuration (DSC) Resource Kit, which is a collection of DSC Resources produced by the PowerShell Team. This module contains resources for installation of System Center Service Management Automation (SMA). The xSCSMA module contains three resources - xSCSMAPowerShellSetup for installation of the SMA PowerShell, xSCSMAWebServiceServerSetup for installation of the SMA Web Service server, and xSCSMARunbookWorkerServerSetup for installation of the SMA Runbook Worker server.
All of the resources in the DSC Resource Kit are provided AS IS, and are not supported through any Microsoft standard support program or service. The ""x" in xSCSMA stands for experimental, which means that these resources will be fix forward and monitored by the module owner(s).
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If you would like to modify xSCSMA module, feel free. When modifying, please update the module name, resource friendly name, and MOF class name (instructions below). As specified in the license, you may copy or modify this resource as long as they are used on the Windows Platform.
For more information about Windows PowerShell Desired State Configuration, check out the blog posts on the PowerShell Blog (
this is a good starting point). There are also great community resources, such as PowerShell.org, or PowerShell Magazine. For more information on the DSC Resource Kit, check out this blog post.To install the xSCSMA module
To confirm installation:
This module requires the latest version of PowerShell (v4.0, which ships in Windows 8.1 or Windows Server 2012R2). To easily use PowerShell 4.0 on older operating systems, install WMF 4.0. Please read the installation instructions that are present on both the download page and the release notes for WMF 4.0.
The xSCSMA module contains the xSCSMAPowerShellSetup, xSCSMAWebServiceServerSetup and xSCSMARunbookWorkerServerSetup DSC Resources. This DSC Module enables installation of System Center Service Management Automation (SMA).
xSCSMAPowerShellSetup is used for installation of the SMA PowerShell components, and has the following properties:
xSCSMAWebServiceServerSetup is used for installation of the SMA Web Service server, and has the following properties:
xSCSMARunbookWorkerServerSetup is used for installation of the SMA Runbook Worker server, and has the following properties:
When making changes to these resources, we suggest the following practice:
We reserve resource and module names without prefixes ("x" or "c") for future use (e.g. "MSFT_SCSMAWebServiceServerSetup" or "SCSMAWebServiceServerSetup"). If the next version of Windows Server ships with "MSFT_SCSMAWebServiceServerSetup" resources, we don't want to break any configurations that use any community modifications. Please keep a prefix such as "c" on all community modifications.
1.1.0.0
Three example configurations are included in the Examples folder. All three examples also use the xSQLServer module.
Single Server Installation: SCSMA-SingleServer.ps1 installs all SMA roles including prerequisites and SQL on a single server.
Separate SQL: SCSMA-SeperateSQL.ps1 installs all SMA roles on one server and SQL on a seperate server.
Multiple Instances: SCSMA-MultiInstance.ps1 installs all SMA roles including multiple instances of both Web Service and Runbook Worker servers and SQL on a seperate server.
Notes:
All three examples use the exact same Configuration and just modify the behavior based on input ConfigurationData.
In the Examples folder you will see a version of each file with "-TP" appended to the name. These are the equivalent examples for deployment of System Center Technical Preview on Windows Server Technical Preview.
The samples require the use of the Windows Management Framework (WMF) 5.0 Preview.
System Center 2012 R2 Service Management Automation Web Service and Runbook Worker installers have a hard check for PowerShell 4.0. If you are using these resources to install on a system that has WMF5 preview installed, you must copy the transform (MST) files from the Web Service and Runbook Worker DSC resource folders to the SMA installation folder.