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[aflora]

Hi

Does anyone know the code to list the owner DL contacts from the summary box of a virtual machine?

[esarakaitis]

what do you mean owner dl?

[esarakaitis]

are you talking about extracting the info from the notes section?

if so use this:

Code:

$VMs = Get-VM
$myCol = @()

foreach($vm in $VMs){
$myObj = "" | Select-Object Name, Notes
$myObj.Name = $VM.Name
$myObj.Notes = $VM.Description
      $myCol += $myObj
}
$myCol

[aflora]

When viewing a VM using the VIC. From the Summary tab in the annotation box there is a field named Owener DL (Distribution List).

[aflora]

No the owner DL wasn't listed...by the way is there documentatiion on what properties and objects are available for reporting?

[esarakaitis]

sounds like a custom field that you are using, sure download the SDK API reference guide, then look in SDK\doc\ReferenceGuide\index.html then click all properties

[esarakaitis]

so you want a list of each vm, how many drives it has, and the size of them... yes you can do that quite easily

[aflora]

Hi esarakaitis

I finally figured out what I need to query to get the value of "Ownership DL" By using MOB(Managed Object Browser). "Ownership DL" is an availableField[9] and customValue[9] from the CustomFeildDef Data Object type. Unfortunately I'm having the darnest time trying do something useful with this inforamtion.
Would you know how to add the code to retreive this info to the folowing script?:

$Report = @()
$VMS = get-vmhost | Get-vm
   foreach ($VM in $VMS){
       $VMX = Get-View $VM.ID
       $HW = $VMX.guest.net
       foreach ($dev in $HW)
         {
             foreach ($ip in $dev.ipaddress)
             {
                    $MyDetails = "" | Select-Object Name, IP, MAC
                $MyDetails.Name = $VM.Name
                $MyDetails.IP = $ip
                $MyDetails.MAC = $dev.macaddress
                $Report +=  $MyDetails
                 }
            }
      }



Thanks!

[esarakaitis]

the script  your referencing is to list vmname, ip and mac... and has nothing to do CustomFieldDef

why dont you post what code that you've come up with and ill help you from there

[aflora]

It turns out that Ownership DL is a custom field. So this worked for me:

$vm =Get-VM server01
$vm.CustomFields["Ownership DL"]

[esarakaitis]

excellent, how did you finally find it?

[aflora]

First I found it by browsing through my infrastructure using the MOB.

Then LucD of the PowerCLI forum helped me with the code.

 

$vm.CustomFileds["Ownership DL"]

 

I didn't realize the code for this was that easy. I was including the full path from the MOB in my code.

 

something like this:

 

$vm.AvailableField.value.CustomFields["Ownership DL"]

 

DOH!