Category Archives: Automation

Blog Series: Monitoring using PowerShell: Part Seven – Monitoring back-ups with PowerShell

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Hi All,

My next couple of blogs will be a series of blogs where I will be explaining on how to use PowerShell for the monitoring of critical infrastructure. I will be releasing a blog every day that will touch on how to monitor specific software components, but also network devices from Ubiquity, third-party API’s and Office365. I will also be showing how you can integrate this monitoring in current RMM packages such as Solarwinds N-Central, Solarwinds RMM MSP and even include the required files to import the  monitoring set directly into your system.

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Blog Series: Monitoring using PowerShell: Part Six – Monitoring CSV volumes for space and status

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Hi All,

My next couple of blogs will be a series of blogs where I will be explaining on how to use PowerShell for the monitoring of critical infrastructure. I will be releasing a blog every day that will touch on how to monitor specific software components, but also network devices from Ubiquity, third-party API’s and Office365. I will also be showing how you can integrate this monitoring in current RMM packages such as Solarwinds N-Central, Solarwinds RMM MSP and even include the required files to import the  monitoring set directly into your system.

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Blog Series: Monitoring using PowerShell: Part five – Monitoring the Windows Search Database, iSCSI Connections, and Bitlocker state.

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Hi All,

My next couple of blogs will be a series of blogs where I will be explaining on how to use PowerShell for the monitoring of critical infrastructure. I will be releasing a blog every day that will touch on how to monitor specific software components, but also network devices from Ubiquity, third-party API’s and Office365. I will also be showing how you can integrate this monitoring in current RMM packages such as Solarwinds N-Central, Solarwinds RMM MSP and even include the required files to import the  monitoring set directly into your system.

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Blog Series: Monitoring using PowerShell: Part four – Using Powershell to update and maintain unifi devices

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Hi All,

My next couple of blogs will be a series of blogs where I will be explaining on how to use PowerShell for the monitoring of critical infrastructure. I will be releasing a blog every day that will touch on how to monitor specific software components, but also network devices from Ubiquity, third-party API’s and Office365. I will also be showing how you can integrate this monitoring in current RMM packages such as Solarwinds N-Central, Solarwinds RMM MSP and even include the required files to import the  monitoring set directly into your system.

Continue reading →

Blog Series: Monitoring using PowerShell: Part three – Using Powershell to monitor Unifi Controllers

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Hi All,

My next couple of blogs will be a series of blogs where I will be explaining on how to use PowerShell for the monitoring of critical infrastructure. I will be releasing a blog every day that will touch on how to monitor specific software components, but also network devices from Ubiquiti, third-party API’s and Office365. I will also be showing how you can integrate this monitoring in current RMM packages such as Solarwinds N-Central, Solarwinds RMM MSP and even include the required files to import the  monitoring set directly into your system.

Continue reading →

Blog Series: Monitoring using PowerShell: Part two – Using Powershell to monitor Dell systems

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Hi All,

My next couple of blogs will be a series of blogs where I will be explaining on how to use PowerShell for the monitoring of critical infrastructure. I will be releasing a blog every day that will touch on how to monitor specific software components, but also network devices from Ubiquity, third-party API’s and Office365. I will also be showing how you can integrate this monitoring in current RMM packages such as Solarwinds N-Central, Solarwinds RMM MSP and even include the required files to import the  monitoring set directly into your system.

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Blog Series: Monitoring using PowerShell: Part one – Using PowerShell to monitor MegaRaid

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Hi All,

My next couple of blogs will be a series of blogs where I will be explaining on how to use PowerShell for the monitoring of critical infrastructure. I will be releasing a blog every day that will touch on how to monitor specific software components, but also network devices from Ubiquity, third-party API’s and Office365. I will also be showing how you can integrate this monitoring in current RMM packages such as Solarwinds N-Central, Solarwinds RMM MSP and even include the required files to import the  monitoring set directly into your system.

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Blog Series: Monitoring using PowerShell

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Hi All,

My next couple of blogs will be a series of blogs where I will be explaining on how to use PowerShell for the monitoring of critical infrastructure. I will be releasing a blog every few days that will touch on how to monitor specific software components, but also network devices from Ubiquity, third-party API’s and Office365. I will also be showing how you can integrate this monitoring in current RMM packages such as Solarwinds N-Central, Solarwinds RMM MSP and even include the required files to import the  monitoring set directly into your system.

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Mini-Blog: Creating HTML files from CSV

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We use a documentation system that only allows CSV exports, which gets annoying when tyring to supply clients with some form of data out of it. To resolve I rewrote the script by Brandon Everhardt to take all CSV files from a folder and export them into a single readable HTML file. It’s a very quick and dirty script, using the ConvertTo-HTML function to make a somewhat more readable approach.

The result looks like this:

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Mini-blog: Wait for VM to come online, then execute Powershell direct

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During my labbing I’ve noticed I often need to wait for the VM to get online before executing some script or commands, to do that I use the following script:

First we get the VM Name, and enter the credentials for that specific VM:

$VMName = read-host "Please enter the VM-Name"
$VM = get-vm $VMName
$cred = Get-Credential -Message "Please enter credentials for the VM"

By getting the VM status we can use the VM.Heartbeat to check the actual status. We’re currently counting on the VM to be an unmonitored VM so the result we expect is “OkApplicationsUnknown” – This means the OS is up but the hypervisor has no idea if the VM applications are “healthy”.

To wait for the VM to get online we use a while loop to keep checking the heartbeat and if the status changes. 

do
{
$VM = get-vm $VMName
} while ($vm.Heartbeat -ne "OkApplicationsUnknown")

Directly after the loop we are sure the VM is online, so we can execute our script via PowerShell Direct, here I simply print the hostname. 🙂

invoke-command -vmname $vmname -Credential $cred -ScriptBlock {write-host "My name is $env:COMPUTERNAME"}

Happy scripting!