# Creating OpsItems manually (PowerShell)
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The following procedure describes how to create an OpsItem by using AWS Tools for Windows PowerShell. 

**To create an OpsItem using AWS Tools for Windows PowerShell**

1. Open AWS Tools for Windows PowerShell and run the following command to specify your credentials. 

   ```
   Set-AWSCredentials –AccessKey {{key-name}} –SecretKey {{key-name}}
   ```

1. Run the following command to set the AWS Region for your PowerShell session.

   ```
   Set-DefaultAWSRegion -Region {{Region}}
   ```

1. Run the following command to create a new OpsItem. Replace each {{example resource placeholder}} with your own information. This command specifies a Systems Manager Automation runbook for remediating this OpsItem. 

   ```
   $opsItem = New-Object Amazon.SimpleSystemsManagement.Model.OpsItemDataValue
   $opsItem.Type = [Amazon.SimpleSystemsManagement.OpsItemDataType]::SearchableString 
   $opsItem.Value = '[{\"automationId\":\"{{runbook_name}}\",\"automationType\":\"AWS::SSM::Automation\"}]'
   $newHash = @{" /aws/automations"=[Amazon.SimpleSystemsManagement.Model.OpsItemDataValue]$opsItem}
   
   New-SSMOpsItem `
       -Title "{{title}}" `
       -Description "{{description}}" `
       -Priority {{priority_number}} `
       -Source {{AWS_service}} `
       -OperationalData $newHash
   ```

   If successful, the command outputs the ID of the new OpsItem.

The following example specifies the Amazon Resource Name (ARN) of an impaired Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) instance.

```
$opsItem = New-Object Amazon.SimpleSystemsManagement.Model.OpsItemDataValue
$opsItem.Type = [Amazon.SimpleSystemsManagement.OpsItemDataType]::SearchableString 
$opsItem.Value = '[{\"arn\":\"arn:aws:ec2:us-east-1:123456789012:instance/i-1234567890abcdef0\"}]'
$newHash = @{" /aws/resources"=[Amazon.SimpleSystemsManagement.Model.OpsItemDataValue]$opsItem}
New-SSMOpsItem -Title "EC2 instance disk full still" -Description "Log clean up may have failed which caused the disk to be full" -Priority 2 -Source ec2 -OperationalData $newHash
```