Month: May 2008

I wrote this a while back, and just blew the dust off it.

Meet get-PerfCounters.ps1  Basically you feed the script a csv file that has “ServerName” on the first line the first.

The script will then loop the servers and get the following perf counters

SystemSystem Up Time
Memory% Committed Bytes In Use
MemoryCommitted Bytes
MemoryCommit Limit
Paging File% Usage
MemoryPool Nonpaged Bytes
MemoryPool Paged Bytes

You can see from the code that it is very easy to add other counters if you want to get them.

What is then does is output the counter to file in a dated folder.

The final bit, that I am really proud of, is it will check free diskspace.  I uses the Logical Disk Perf counter and will pick up ALL logical drives.  It will event alert you if if the free space falls beloe a value.

 Well check it out and let me know what you think

Off the back of Eileen’s post, I just couldn’t resist a new ebook.

So Exchange Management Shell: TFM is a 386 page secured! PDF document, with the last 8 being adverts for Sapien Press!.  The secured bit is a a major pain in the butt as you can’t copy from the PDF doc.  So a PDF ebook, that has code snippets becomes kind like a paper book and unusable to a degree as it prevents the nice easy copy, paste and run the script attitude of an ebook!

Any way apart from the copy & paste issue the books covers quite a lot.  Here are the top level subjects

• Exchange Management Shell: Rules of Thumb
• Managing Recipients
• Managing Public Folders
• Managing Organization Configuration
• Managing Exchange 2007 Mailbox Server Role
• Managing Exchange 2007 Client Access Server Role
• Managing Exchange 2007 Hub Transport Server Role
• Managing Exchange 2007 Unified Messaging
• Managing Exchange 2007 Edge Transport Server Role
• Built-in Scripts and Test Cmdlets
• Recipient Filter

Just having a skim it looks like (now I might be doing it an injustice) a glorified get-help

get-help * | where {($_.pssnapin -like “*Exchange*”)} | sort Name | foreach-object {get-help $_.Name -Full}

I do feel a bit cheated by this ebook.  Maybe it’s because I am not a Powershell newbie, I don’t know, but I can’t see any value add in this ebook .. sorry :-| Maybe it is better suited for a newbie