PowerShell: show Property Bag data

Of course this is not rocket science but  thought this might still be useful when developing or troubleshooting a Management Pack with PowerShell modules:

Your script body usually looks like this:

<ScriptBody>
  <![CDATA[
  # Always use the param statement to access parameters
  param($myArg1)
             
  # Get access to the scripting API
  $API = new-object -comObject "MOM.ScriptAPI"
  # Create the property bag
  $BAG = $API.CreatePropertyBag()
  # Do your magic script stuff here
  # Populate the property bag with data
  $BAG.AddValue("State","Healthy")
  $BAG
  ]]>
</ScriptBody>

The “problem” here is that if you run your script directly in PowerShell for troubleshooting you’d always get “System.__ComObject”.

After adding the following line to your script you’ll get the XML data that has been added to the property bag:

$API.Return($BAG)

Not a big thing but helpful at all…

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