[vRA 7.3] - BMC EPIagent Custom Properties to Make Software Jobs Available

[ymichalak]

Hi team,

we have create "Properties Groups" for BMC EPIagent.

In the documentation here, page 55 is said :

Specifies a software job or policy to be applied to all machines provisioned from the blueprint. Set the value to job_type=job_path, where job_type  is the numeral that represents the BMC BladeLogic job type and job_path is the location of the job in BMC BladeLogic, for example 4=/Utility/putty. NNNN is a number from 1000 to 1999. The first property must start with 1000 and increment in numerical order for each additional property

Ok this is done with the "Properties Group" :

"Vrm.Software.Id1000" = "2=/ASSET/DEV/Windows/EMEA_Baseline/ASSET-Win_Finalization_DC4";

"Vrm.Software.Id1001" = "4=/ASSET/DEV/Windows/EMEA_Baseline/Office/2016/Office_2016_64_bits";

Now we want to deploy Vrm.Software.Id1000 in FIRST and after the software Vrm.Software.Id1001, etc.......

Actually Vrm.Software.Id1001 is always deployed in FIRST.

Of course we have tried to invert the numbers but the Office Package is always the first to be installed :smileyangry:

Do you know how we can force the installation order of BMC Bladelogic Packages with the EPIPowershell agent ?

Thx for your help ...Have a Nice Week

[ymichalak · Accepted solution]

Ok now works......

It's necessary to UPDATE InstallSoftware.ps1 file.

We have changed these lines :

$softwareList = @{}

    foreach ($a in $dict.Keys) {

        #Check for import flag

        if ( ($a.StartsWith("bmc.import")) -and ($import.Equals("false")) ) {

        $import = "true"

        }

        if ( $a.StartsWith("vrm.software")) {

            [string[]] $strSplit = [regex]::split($dict[$a], "[.*/]")

            #Get the Batch Job Name

            $softwareBatch = $strSplit[$strSplit.Length -1].Replace("`"","")

            #Get the Batch Location

            $softwareLocation = $dict[$a].Replace($softwareBatch,"").Replace("`"","")

            if ( $softwareLocation -eq $null ) {

                $softwareLocation = "/"

            } elseif ($softwareLocation.EndsWith("/")) {

                $softwareLocation = $softwareLocation.TrimEnd("/")

            }

            #Add quotes back to properties

            $softwareLocation = "{0}$softwareLocation{1}" -f ("`"","`"")

            $softwareBatch = "{0}$softwareBatch{1}" -f ("`"","`"")

            #Add to the Software Hashtable

            if ( $softwareBatch.Contains("License Server") ) {

                $licList.Add($softwareBatch, $softwareLocation)

            } else {

                $softwareList.Add($softwareBatch, $softwareLocation)

            }

        }

    }

for this :

$tempList = [ordered]@{}

$softwareList = [ordered]@{}

    foreach ($a in $dict.Keys) {

        #Check for import flag

        if ( ($a.StartsWith("bmc.import")) -and ($import.Equals("false")) ) {

        $import = "true"

        }

        #extracting the BL jobs to play

        if ( $a.StartsWith("vrm.software")) {

            $tempList.Add($a, $dict[$a])

            $tempList

        }

    }

    #ordering the job list using the key

    $tempList = $tempList.GetEnumerator() | Sort-Object -Property name

    write "list"

    write $tempList

    write "keys"

    write $tempList.Keys

    write "type"

    write $tempList.GetType()

    #playing magic as before

    foreach ($b in $tempList){

        write "loop"

        write $b

        write $b.key

        write $b.value

        if ( $b.key.StartsWith("vrm.software")) {

            [string[]] $strSplit = [regex]::split($b.value, "[.*/]")

            #Get the Batch Job Name

            $softwareBatch = $strSplit[$strSplit.Length -1].Replace("`"","")

            #Get the Batch Location

            $softwareLocation = $b.value.Replace($softwareBatch,"").Replace("`"","")

            if ( $softwareLocation -eq $null ) {

                $softwareLocation = "/"

            } elseif ($softwareLocation.EndsWith("/")) {

                $softwareLocation = $softwareLocation.TrimEnd("/")

            }

            #Add quotes back to properties

            $softwareLocation = "{0}$softwareLocation{1}" -f ("`"","`"")

            $softwareBatch = "{0}$softwareBatch{1}" -f ("`"","`"")

            #Add to the Software Hashtable

            if ( $softwareBatch.Contains("License Server") ) {

                $licList.Add($softwareBatch, $softwareLocation)

            } else {

                $softwareList.Add($softwareBatch, $softwareLocation)

            }

        }

    }