Basic Command-lets

Folks , 

This blog is meant for learning power cli scripts . Going forward I will  be amending the scripts which we admins use on day today basis .

Some of the basic command-lets 

1. Connect and disconnect from VC server
   
   Connect-VIServer VCserver -User admin -Password pwd Disconnect-VIServer VCserver  -Confirm:$false
   
2. Export report to CSV format
   Export-Csv $FileName
   
3. Export report to HTML file
   $date=Get-Date
   $Folder= "c:\Temp"
   $FileName= "$Folder\Changehistory{0}{1:d2}{2:d2}.html" -f $date.Year,$date.Month,$date.Day
   $Report= @()
   ConvertTo-Html –title "ChangeHistory " –body "<H4>Date and time</H4>",$date -head $a  | Out-File $FileName
   $Report= Get-VIEvent
   $report | ConvertTo-Html -head $a -Body "<H4> VM guests Removed  - last 7 days  </h4>" | Out-File -append $FileName
   
4. Email a report
   
   function SendMail{
   $sender = "sender@domain.com "$recipient = "Recipient@domain.com "
   $CC = "CCRecipient@domain.com"
   $BCC = "BCCRecipient@domain.com"
   $mailserver = "smtp.domain.com"
   $subject = "Change History "
   $body = "Report Attached"
   $msg = new-object System.Net.Mail.MailMessage $sender, $recipient, $subject, $body
   $attachment = new-object System.Net.Mail.Attachment $FileName
   $msg.CC.Add($CC)
   $msg.BCC.Add($BCC)
   $msg.Attachments.Add($attachment)
   $client = new-object System.Net.Mail.SmtpClient $mailserver
   $client.Send($msg)
   $attachment.Dispose()}
   SendMail


5. Get Command-lets
   As the name say get command-lets are used to get the properties of the object.
6. Set Command-lets
   
   These are used to set the attribute of a object