Hi,

I am trying to change a Runbook activity status to "Failed" in SCSM using the below command in SCSM:

Set-SCSMObject -SMObject $Object -Property Status -Value "Failed"

But I get the below error when I run it:

Set-SCSMObject : Unable to cast object of type 'System.String' to type 'Microsoft.EnterpriseManagement.Common.EnterpriseManagementObject'.

Does anyone know how to fix it or what is wrong with that code block?

Any help will be appreciated.

Thanks

Perhaps you should ask your question in SCSM forum.

From your example we have no idea what is $Object.

You can try:

$Object | Get-Member

and check if property 'Status' might be read only? 

I am manually assigning a Runbook ID for testing purposes to $Object. e.g. $Object = RB12345. Then I am trying to see if Set-SCSMObject changes the status of that activity to failed.

I agree that this should better be posted on SCSM forum and just done that.

Thanks :)

You cannot use a string for an object.  Either use the object or change the code.

Yes, jrv point is correct - Recently our DPM team asked me the fix for similar issue -

Get-DPMDatasource -ProductionServer DPMServer

Error:

Get-DPMDatasource : Cannot bind parameter 'ProductionServer'. Cannot convert the "DPMServer
" value of type "System.String" to type "Microsoft.Internal.EnterpriseStorage.Dls.UI.Objec
tModel.OMCommon.ProductionServer".

What we did is like below - This is just for demo

$ps = Get-DPMProductionServer
Get-DPMDatasource -ProductionServer $ps[0]