VM search by IP

[eaphilipp]

Hi Everyone. I am trying to write a little script to search for a VM via IP. It seems to work accept the part where if it doesn't find anything it reports back No VMs Found. Here is my code.

What am I missing:

$ip = $null

$ip = read-host "Please Enter IP Address of VM you want to search for "

If ($ip -ne $null)

{

Get-VM | where-object{$_.Guest.IPAddress -eq $ip } | select name

}

else

{

write-host "No VMs Found"

}

Thanks as always for the help.

[LucD]

Try like this

$ip = Read-Host "Please Enter IP Address of VM you want to search for "

If ($ip -ne '')

{

   $found = Get-VM | where-object { $_.Guest.IPAddress -eq $ip } | select name

   if (-not $found)

   {

   Write-Host "No VM with IP $ip found"

   }

}

else

{

   Write-Host "No IP provided"

}

[eaphilipp]

Ok, this worked for the not found part. Yay! But when it found the VM with that IP it didn't return the VM name on the screen. I am assuming it appears to be stored in the $found variable. Whats the best way to extract that information from $found. Ideally I want to put this in a menu system and have the option to repeat it...

But for now just getting this to work would be sweet!

[LucD · Accepted solution]

One way to do that would be

$ip = Read-Host "Please Enter IP Address of VM you want to search for "

If ($ip -ne '')

{

   $found = Get-VM | where-object { $_.Guest.IPAddress -eq $ip }

   if (-not $found)

   {

   Write-Host "No VM with IP $ip found"

   }

   else

   {

   Write-Host "Found VM $($found.Name)"

   }

}

else

{

   Write-Host "No IP provided"

}

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[eaphilipp]

Awesome. Yes that is a good solution. Thanks as always for the help.