Citrix Policies and Powershell (Double the Pleasure!)
I notice there was entry on Brian Madden forums about creating Citrix Policies. http://www.brianmadden.com/Forum/Topic/97139
I decided to spend a little time looking at this from a script perspective and here are some examples of dealing with Citrix Policies that I came up with.
Just a FYI
I hear tell there will be some Citrix CMDLets coming very soon that will make working with Citrix amazingly simple (which will include an import/export Citrix policy cmdlets.) I cannot tell you how revolutionary this will be for your typical Citrix Admin.
You can find the Citrix Enums here
http://bsonposh.com/modules/wordpress/?p=62
Script To Get Citrix Policy
Param($Server,$PolicyName = ".*")
# Enums in Use
$MetaFrameUnknownObject = 0
$MetaFrameWinFarmObject = 1
# Getting Farm Object
$type = [System.Type]::GetTypeFromProgID("MetaframeCOM.MetaframeFarm",$Server)
$mfarm = [system.Activator]::CreateInstance($type)
$mfarm.Initialize($MetaFrameWinFarmObject)
# Getting Policies that Match Name and Loading Data
$pol = $mfarm.policies($MetaFrameUnknownObject) | ?{$_.Name -match $PolicyName}
$pol | %{$_.LoadData($true)}
$pol
Script To Create a New Citrix Policy
Param($Server,$PolicyName,$PolicyDescription)
if(!$PolicyDescription){$PolicyDescription=$PolicyName)
$type = [System.Type]::GetTypeFromProgID("MetaframeCOM.MetaframeFarm",$Server)
$mfarm = [system.Activator]::CreateInstance($type)
$mfarm.Initialize(1)
$NewPolicy = $mfarm.CreatePolicy(19,$PolicyName,$PolicyDescription)
Script To Remove a Citrix Policy
Param($Server,$PolicyName = $(throw ‘$PolicyName is Required’),[switch]$whatif)
# Enums in Use
$MetaFrameUnknownObject = 0
$MetaFrameWinFarmObject = 1
# Getting Farm Object
$type = [System.Type]::GetTypeFromProgID("MetaframeCOM.MetaframeFarm",$Server)
$mfarm = [system.Activator]::CreateInstance($type)
$mfarm.Initialize($MetaFrameWinFarmObject)
# Getting Policies that Match Name and Loading Data
$policies = $mfarm.policies($MetaFrameUnknownObject) | ?{$_.Name -eq $PolicyName}
foreach($pol in $policies)
{
if($whatif){Write-Host " What if: Performing operation `"Delete`" on Target `"$($pol.Name)`". " -foreground yellow}
else{Write-Host " – Deleting $($pol.Name)";$pol.Delete()}
}
tshell :: Mar.25.2008 :: Citrix, HowTo, Powershell, Scripting :: 2 Comments »
citrix cmdlets?! cool! when?
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