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Testing the Integrity of a Management Pack
http://jtruher3.wordpress.com/2010/05/12/testing-the-integrity-of-a-management-pack/

When I’m creating a new management pack, I want to be sure that the management pack is valid before I import it. I know that if it’s wrong, the system won’t import it, but I generally like to know these things before I try. In order to do that, I wrote a pretty simple script to test the management pack. It takes advantage of the Verify method on management pack object. This verification does a number of things. First, it checks to be sure that there are no XSD validation errors. If there are, the method throws an exception. The Verify method also checks to be sure that references are correct and present. Note that there may still be some errors that are found upon import, but most of the issues will be caught by this script.

When everything works right, you’ll see something like the following:

PS> test-managementpack .\PowerShell.WATest.xml|ft Verified,Name,FullName -au

Verified Name              FullName
-------- ----              --------
True     PowerShell.WATest C:\Program Files\System Center Management Packs\PowerShell.WATest.xml

However, if something is busted, you'll see this:

PS> test-managementpack .\BigHonkingMP.xml|Ft Verified,Name,FullName -au

Verified Name         FullName
-------- ----         --------
False    BigHonkingMP C:\Program Files\System Center Management Packs\BigHonkingMP.xml

The results of test-managementpack include the error, you can see what happened, by getting the Error property:

PS> test-managementpack .\BigHonkingMP.xml|Fl name,error


Name  : BigHonkingMP
Error : {Exception calling "Verify" with "0" argument(s): "Verification failed with 1 errors:
        -------------------------------------------------------
        Error 1:
        : Failed to verify class: BigHonkingMP.ConcreteMicroBleh
        Host class BigHonkingMP.AbstractBleh and hosted class BigHonkingMP.ConcreteMicroBleh define the same set of key properties.
        -------------------------------------------------------
        "}

You can also pipe files at test-managementpack, so you can use it like this:

PS> ls *.xml|test-managementpack

Verified Name                                           FullName
-------- ----                                           --------
False    BigHonkingMP                                   C:\Program Files\System Center Management Packs\BigHonkingMP.xml
. . .

Which I thought was pretty handy - going through a bunch of MPs at once.

Here's the script, it relies on version 2.0 of PowerShell. I've added online help, so you can run get-help test-managementpack to get info on it. The business end of the script is in line 29 and 30. That's where I create a management pack object and then call verify. If the management pack object can't be created, or if it fails verify, the exception gets caught and then the script builds up an error message. Rather than using Write-Error to indicate the problem, I decided to include the error message in resultant object. I did this because I didn't really want the error output at this point, but I wanted to hang on to the verify failure.

 

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#requires -version 2.0 param (      [parameter(Position=0,Mandatory=$true,ValueFromPipeline=$true)]     [string[]]$fullname      ) BEGIN { # GLOBAL REFERENCES # $SMDIR $NS = "Microsoft.EnterpriseManagement" [reflection.assembly]::LoadWithPartialName("${NS}.Core")|out-null $EMG = new-object "${NS}.EnterpriseManagementGroup" localhost $MPSType = "${NS}.Configuration.IO.ManagementPackFileStore" $MPType  = "${NS}.Configuration.ManagementPack" } PROCESS {     $fullname | %{          $path = (resolve-path $_).path         $FInfo = [io.fileinfo]$path         $dir = $FInfo.DirectoryName         $fil = $FInfo.FullName         $error.clear()         try         {             $MP = new-object $MPType $fil,$EMG             $MP.Verify()          }         catch { ; }         if ( $error.count )          {              $Verified = $false              $msgs = $error|%{$_.Exception;$_.Exception.InnerException}             $ErrorMessage = $msgs -join "`n"         }          else          {              $ErrorMessage = "No Errors"              $Verified = $true          }         $PSO = new-object PSObject         $PSO.psobject.typenames[0]=  "Microsoft.EnterpriseManagement.Configuration.ManagementPack.CustomVerification"         $PSO | add-member NoteProperty Verified $Verified         $PSO | add-member NoteProperty Name $MP.Name         $PSO | add-member NoteProperty FullName $fil         $PSO | add-member NoteProperty Error $error.clone()         $PSO | add-member NoteProperty ErrorMessage $ErrorMessage         $PSO     } } <# .SYNOPSIS     Verify the integrity of a management pack .DESCRIPTION     The cmdlet attempts to create a management pack object based on the     provided file and then calls the verify method to determine whether     the management pack is valid. .PARAMETER fullname     The fullname of the management pack .EXAMPLE ls wf*.xml|test-ManagementPack Verified Name FullName -------- ---- -------- True WF.NoWorkflow C:\Program Files\System Center Management Packs\wf.NoWorkflow.xml True WF.Simple C:\Program Files\System Center Management Packs\wf.Simple.xml True WF.SingleCmdTask C:\Program Files\System Center Management Packs\wf.SingleCmdTask.xml True WF.SingleTask C:\Program Files\System Center Management Packs\wf.SingleTask.xml .INPUTS     Output from get-childitem     Any object which has a fullname property which represents a management pack .OUTPUTS     A custom object which contains the following:         Verified - A boolean indicating whether the MP was verified         Name - The name of the management pack         FullName - The path to the management pack         Error - Errors produced while verifying the management pack .LINK     Export-ManagementPack     Get-ManagementPack     Import-ManagementPack     New-ManagementPack     New-SealedManagementPack     Remove-ManagementPack #>

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