After whining about not blogging enough, I am going to do something about this. Whether it is PowerShell or SQL, simple or complex, I know that others can benefit from my knowledge and expand their skill sets.<\/p>\n
And you are like “That’s great Amy…where’s the PowerShell we are here for?” Ok, Ok….keep your drawers on! \ud83d\ude09<\/p>\n
Recently I was tasked with gathering the system information from all of the servers at a client. Another opportunity for some PowerShell dominance.<\/p>\n
<#\r\nName: get_sysinfo.ps1\r\nAuthor: Amy Herold\r\nDate: 03 May 2017\r\nPurpose: Get the system information from a list of computers\/servers, doing one machine at a time and outputting server name\r\nwhen you can't connect. Output information to a NFO file with the name of the machine.\r\n\r\nNotes: Get your list of servers and update the $servers variable below. Make sure they are also formatted the same way as in the sample.\r\nUpdate the $path variable with where you want to save the NFO files.\r\n#>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<#------------variables you need to change---------------#>\r\n$servers = @('server1','server2');\r\n$path = 'C:\\Where_You_Want_The_Files\\system_info\\';\r\n<#-------------------------------------------------------#>\r\n\r\nforeach ($s in $servers)\r\n{\r\n #------as long as we can connect to the machine, get the system info--------\r\n if((Test-Connection -Cn $s -BufferSize 16 -Count 1 -ea 0 -quiet))\r\n {\r\n $filepath = $path + $s +'.NFO'; \r\n $cmd = "C:\\windows\\system32\\msinfo32.exe";\r\n $args = "\/computer $s \/nfo $filepath \/categories +all";\r\n\r\n #if you can connect to the server, gather and save sysinfo\r\n Start-Process $cmd $args -Wait; \r\n\r\n }\r\n else\r\n {\r\n "Cannot connect - $s"\r\n }\r\n \r\n}<\/pre>\nWith this script you can generate system information files and save them to a specified location. It makes sure a connection can be made to the server first, and then outputs the file. The files are created one at a time, so if you pass in a longer list of servers, you shouldn’t crash your machine. From my testing, this will take some time to run as these files don’t output quickly. Despite that, the output is worth it. This can be modified to pull your list of servers from a file or from a Central Management Server (CMS) instance.<\/p>\n
Hope you find this useful. Happy PowerShellin’ \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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