Comments on: Auto Email Exchange 2007 StorageGroupCopyStatus

By: Matt Shadbolt

Matt Shadbolt — Tue, 10 Nov 2009 22:51:17 +0000

Edit (seems the comment box doesn’t like html…)
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Hi Robban,
To convert the text color to something other than red you need to use the -body switch for the ConvertTo-Html. To change all the text red use:

ConvertToHtml -body ""

If you only want the colour to change if the status is healthy you need to add an if statement. It shouldn’t be too hard for you to work out yourself, but here is a quick example of something simular. This script will output all processes and if the $colorred variable is set to “yes” will convert the HTML output to red:

$colorred = "yes"
If ($colorred -match "yes")
{
Get-Process |
ConvertTo-Html name,path,fileversion -title "Process Information" -body ""|
Set-Content C:\pscripts\test.htm
}
else
{
Get-Process |
ConvertTo-Html name,path,fileversion -title "Process Information"|
Set-Content C:\pscripts\test.htm
}

By: Robban

Robban — Tue, 10 Nov 2009 12:18:28 +0000

Hi and thanks for this!! but Im a newbie so could you write the code for this comment:
“Hi Jonny,
Yeah you sould easily be able to consolidate the output into one email.”

And is there anyway to format the output HTML email?
You know if the status is healthy the text is green or something like that

Best regards
Robban

By: Jonny Barker

Jonny Barker — Thu, 22 Oct 2009 14:23:00 +0000

Hi again Matt, Just thought I’d let you know that I got my script working just the way I want it. It basically now runs the command across 3 clusters, formats the output into a readable format, dumps it to a txt file which is then attached to an email and sent. Thanks alot for you help:

$logFilePath = new-item -type file -name “$(get-date -uformat ‘%Y%m%d%H%M%S’)-filename.txt”

#Set Variables
Get-StorageGroupCopyStatus -Server servername -StandbyMachine servername | Format-Table -AutoSize | out-file $logfilepath
Get-StorageGroupCopyStatus -Server servername -StandbyMachine servername | Format-Table -AutoSize | out-file $logfilepath -append
Get-StorageGroupCopyStatus -Server servername -StandbyMachine servername | Format-Table -AutoSize | out-file $logfilepath -append

#Email function
function sendmail($attachment)
{
$SmtpClient = New-Object system.net.mail.smtpClient
$MailMessage = New-Object system.net.mail.mailmessage
$Attachment = New-Object System.Net.Mail.Attachment($logfilepath)
$SmtpClient.Host = “mailserver”
$mailmessage.from = “senders address”
$mailmessage.To.add(“recipients address”)
$mailmessage.Subject = “Storage Group Copy Status report”
$MailMessage.IsBodyHtml = $false
$mailmessage.Body = $body
$MailMessage.Attachments.Add($Attachment)
$smtpclient.Send($mailmessage)
}

sendmail $AllServers

Jonny Barker

By: Jonny Barker

Jonny Barker — Fri, 16 Oct 2009 11:14:40 +0000

Awesome thanks. I’ll give that a try.

Jonny

By: Matt Shadbolt

Matt Shadbolt — Wed, 14 Oct 2009 21:53:40 +0000

Hi Jonny,

Yeah you sould easily be able to consolidate the output into one email.
What you want to do is break out the get-storagegroupcopystatus into three variables.
ie, $NodeOneStatus = Get-StorageGroupCopyStatus NODE1..
$NodeTwoStatus = Get-StorageGroupCopyStatus NODE2..

Then pass the $NodeOneStatus and $NodeTwoStatus into the $MessageBody variable and the script will send all of the output from your $NodeOne/TwoStatus variables.

Cheers,
Matt.

By: Jonny Barker

Jonny Barker — Wed, 14 Oct 2009 10:58:35 +0000

Hi Matt,
This script is just what I was looking for. My only problem is that I have a 3 node cluster so I need to run this as is 3 times, i.e. 3 sets of Get-StorageGroupCopyStatus -Server PRIMARYSERVER -StandbyMachine SECONDARYSERVER.
Rather than schedule 3 separate powershells would there be an easy way to include all 3 nodes into one script and have the output dumped into one email?

Ideally each node would be headlined i.e.:

Node 1
Storage Group Status Replay Que Length Last Replayed Time Last Full Backup
SG1 Healthy 1255 10/13/2009 5:51:41 AM 10/12/2009 5:02:05 PM
SG2 Healthy 2732 10/13/2009 5:50:18 AM 10/12/2009 5:46:54 PM

Node 2
Storage Group Status Replay Que Length Last Replayed Time Last Full Backup
SG1 Healthy 1255 10/13/2009 5:51:41 AM 10/12/2009 5:02:05 PM
SG2 Healthy 2732 10/13/2009 5:50:18 AM 10/12/2009 5:46:54 PM
Node 3
Storage Group Status Replay Que Length Last Replayed Time Last Full Backup
SG1 Healthy 1255 10/13/2009 5:51:41 AM 10/12/2009 5:02:05 PM
SG2 Healthy 2732 10/13/2009 5:50:18 AM 10/12/2009 5:46:54 PM

Any help you can give is most appreciated.
Regards

Jonny Barker

By: Matt Shadbolt

Matt Shadbolt — Mon, 05 Oct 2009 23:27:52 +0000

You need to make sure the Exchange plugin is enabled in your PowerShell. Best way to test is to run the script from EMS first – if it works there then you add the:

add-pssnapin Microsoft.Exchange.Management.PowerShell.Admin

Also, if your running the script from a PowerShell you need to set the Execution Policy correctly by:

Set-ExecutionPolicy RemoteSigned

By: Felipe

Felipe — Mon, 05 Oct 2009 19:05:22 +0000

My server will not run the script.
I have checked the security on powershell and everything seems ok. I ran the first line from the script in power shell and the get-storagegroupcopy is not recognized from powershell. any recommendations.