Get-SCSMCategories

Hello everyone!

I have been doing quite a bit of DevOps work lately and I received a request the other day that might be worth sharing.

Our SCSM Administrator needed to get an export of our current categories, and he had found a script online to do so; however, it was only hard coded to go 3 levels deep and our categories would go much deeper than that. . He asked me if I could take a look into why this was happening, and it turned out that the way that the script works is that it was only hard coded to go 3 levels deep, so I wrote a function to recursively go through the main class, and its children and print out the categories regardless of the levels that you might have.

Import-Module SMLets

function get-childLists($listObjects)
{
    $count ++
    foreach($obj in $listObjects)
    {
        $id = $obj.id
        "$("`t"*$count) - $($obj.DisplayName)" | Out-File 'C:\FILE\PATH.txt' -Append
        $children = Get-SCSMEnumeration -ComputerName $scsm | ? Parent -match $id
        if($children -ne $null)
        {
            get-childLists $children, $listName
        }
    }

}

$scsm = 'YOURSCSMSERVER'
$areas = @("ActivityAreaEnum",
"IncidentClassificationEnum",
"ServiceRequestAreaEnum")

foreach($list in $areas)
{
    $count = -1
    $enumLists = Get-SCSMEnumeration -ComputerName $scsm | ? Name -eq $list
    get-childLists $enumLists
}

Let me know what you think, and if you all find this useful then I can probably make it into an actual advance function.

Kind regards,
Me