Export your unsealed Management Packs using the Service Manager cmdlets

As part of your backup routines for Service Manager you should always take a backup of your unsealed Management Packs. But in order to take backup of these, you will have to export them from Service Manager first and doing so manually from the Service Manager console every day isn't really an option. A better way to do this is using the Service Manager cmdlets.

How to do it...

The following is a pretty simple script that uses the Service Manager PowerShell cmdlets:

  1. Log on to the Service Manager management server with an account that has Administrator privileges in Service Manager.
  2. Open a PowerShell prompt and run this command to import the Service Manager PowerShell module:

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