Installing and adding CCS PowerShell snap-ins

Products

• Control Compliance Suite Standards Server
• Control Compliance Suite

Issue/Introduction

Control Compliance Suite (CCS)

You would like to install and add CCS Powershell cmdlets to your Powershell session.

Environment

CCS 12.6.X

Resolution

Note:The CCS PowerShell snap-ins are registered internally on the Windows PowerShell during snap-ins installation and are unregistered during snap-ins uninstallation.

To install CCS PowerShell snap-ins

1. Navigate to the InstallSet\Tools\CCS PowerShell Snap-ins folder of the media structure.
2. Click CCS PowerShell Snap-ins.exe.
3. In the Welcome panel of the Symantec Control Compliance Suite PowerShell Snap-ins Setup Installation Wizard, click Next.
4. In the End-User License Agreement panel, read the license agreement and select I accept the terms in the License Agreement to accept the terms of the end-user license agreement. Click Next to continue.
5. In the Destination Folder panel, click Next to install the CCS PowerShell snap-ins to the default folder or click Browse to choose another folder.
6. In the Ready to install Symantec CCS PowerShell Snap-ins panel, click Install to begin the installation.
   The Installing Symantec CCS PowerShell Snap-ins panel indicates the progress of the installation.
7. In the Finish panel, click Finish to exit the wizard.

 

Adding CCS PowerShell snap-ins

After installing CCS PowerShell snap-ins, you must ensure that CCS PowerShell snap-ins are added to Windows PowerShell for the particular session.

To add CCS PowerShell snap-ins

1. Open the Windows PowerShell command-line interface.
2. To get a list of snap-ins that are registered on your computer, execute the command Get-PSSnapin -reg;.
   The list of all the registered snap-ins along with CCS snap-ins is displayed.
3. Execute the following CCS PowerShell snap-in commands:
   • Add-PSSnapin Symantec.CSM.PS.Standards.SnapIn
   • Add-PSSnapin Symantec.CSM.PS.Assets.SnapIn
   • Add-PSSnapin Symantec.CSM.PS.Tags.SnapIn
   • Add-PSSnapin Symantec.CSM.PS.JobManager.SnapIn
   • Add-PSSnapin Symantec.CSM.PS.Shared.SnapIn
   • Add-PSSnapin Symantec.CSM.PS.Exceptions.SnapIn
4. Specify the values for AppserverNameAndPort values and Binding Type that are set for the current session.
   For instance,
   • $AppServerNameAndPort = "<app_server_name>:1431"
   • $BindingType = "nettcp"
5. You can start using the CCS PowerShell cmdlets.