Setting SMS_INSTALL_DIR_PATH Environment variable on SCCM site servers for SCOM SCCM management pack

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According to the Configuration Manager 2007 SP2 Management Pack User’s Guide for Operations Manager 2007 R2 and Operations Manager 2007 SP1(for MP version 6.0.6000.2), An environment variable named “SMS_INSTALL_DIR_PATH” needs to be created on all SCCM site servers.

I had to do this on 80+ site servers, so I thought why not do this using a script and let SCCM to push it out to all site servers?

Therefore, I wrote a VBScript Set-EnvirVar-For-SCOM.vbs (I didn’t use PowerShell this time because it is easier to push out VBScripts via SCCM).

Source Code:

Set objWMIService = GetObject("winmgmts:" _
& "{impersonationLevel=impersonate}!\\.\root\cimv2")
Set colServices = objWMIService.ExecQuery _
("Select * from Win32_service Where Name = 'SMS_SITE_COMPONENT_MANAGER'")

For each item in colServices
ServicePath = item.PathName
Next

IF Left(ServicePath,1) = Chr(34) THEN
ServicePath = Right(ServicePath, Len(ServicePath)-1)
END IF
IF Right(ServicePath,1) = Chr(34) THEN
ServicePath = Left(ServicePath, Len(ServicePath)-1)
END IF

InstDir = Replace(ServicePath,"\bin\i386\sitecomp.exe","")

EnvVarName = "SMS_INSTALL_DIR_PATH"
IF LEN(InstDir)>0 THEN
Set objWMIService = GetObject("winmgmts:\\.\root\cimv2")
Set objVariable = objWMIService.Get("Win32_Environment").SpawnInstance_
objVariable.Name = EnvVarName
objVariable.UserName = "<System>"
objVariable.VariableValue = InstDir
objVariable.Put_
ELSE
'Wscript.Echo "This is not a SCCM Site Server"
END IF

'Wscript.Echo "Done"

This script retrieves the path of the executable (sitecomp.exe) for the SMS_SITE_COMPONENT_MANAGER service via WMI class Win32_Service, and determine the SMS Install Path based on the path to the executable. It then create a new system environment variable if the path is valid. – This means you can run this script against non-SCCM Site servers and it will not create the environment variable on these machines.

Once I’ve tested the script by manually running in on different servers, I then create a SCCM collection called “SCCM Site Servers”. This collection is a query based collection that looks for machines running SMS_SITE_COMPONENT_MANAGER” service.

Finally, I created a package and deployed it out to this collection.

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