Today I needed to generate a bunch of test data in a hurry. How about using SMLets for that!?
Here is an example of how to do it using the New-SCSMObject to create some incidents.
First get the incident class as a variable:
$incidentclass = get-scsmclass -name system.workitem.incident$
Then get the urgency medium and impact medium enumeration values since impact and urgency are required properties and store those as variables:
$impmed = Get-SCSMEnumeration -Name System.WorkItem.TroubleTicket.ImpactEnum.Medium
$urgmed = Get-SCSMEnumeration -Name System.WorkItem.TroubleTicket.UrgencyEnum.Medium
Now we just need to generate as many incidents as we need (in this case I did 1000):
foreach($i in 1..1000){New-SCSMOBject -Class $incidentclass -PropertyHashtable (@{Title = "Test $i"; Urgency = $urgmed; Impact = $impmed})}
The PropertyHashtable takes a Hashtable as a value. In this case I am creating the hashtable right there inline but it could be passed as a variable too. All you need to do here is use the PropertyName on the left hand side of each hashtable pair and a value on the right hand side. Separate each pair in the hashtable using a semi colon. More information on creating hashtables in PowerShell can be found here: http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ee692803.aspx
This is what it looks like all put together:
On my test system it took about 45 seconds to create 1000 incidents this way. Nice!
