How To Use PowerShell To Retrieve Configuration Settings Of DSC Nodes From A DSC Report Server

When a DSC node has been configured to send DSC reports to a Report Server, it will send both Consistency check reports and Local Configuration Manager (LCM) reports. Local Configuration Manager Reports will have some useful information about a node's LCM settings that were configured when it was set up to pull from a Pull Server.

In this Video, Matt will show you how to query a node for its Agent ID. Then we will use that Agent ID to build a function that will retrieve the StatusData from the LocalConfigurationManager reports for that particular node. Once we have those reports, we will use another function that can be used to filter the data and display the settings that were changed on the node's LCM.

Prerequisites include:
PowerShell 5.0 or higher
A DSC Pull Server
DSC nodes configured to send reports to a Pull Server