Summary

This chapter gave you technical experience in understanding how PowerShell remoting works, including the use of cmdlets such as Enter-PSSession, Invoke-Command, and New-PSSession. It also provided an understanding of SNMP and integrating it with PowerShell. With the lessons learned from this chapter, you can also integrate PowerShell remoting with Desired State Configuration (DSC) for configuration management across multiple machines, and troubleshooting, identifying, and resolving common issues with remoting, such as authentication problems, network connectivity issues, and configuration errors.

The chapter also focused on SNMP basics such as exploring the structure of Management Information Bases (MIBs), OID hierarchy, and how to interpret and navigate MIB data, SNMP operations such as GET, GETNEXT, SET, and TRAP, and how they are used to retrieve and manipulate information on SNMP-managed devices.

Building on these foundations, the chapter transitioned to practical...