Filtering session IDs for a specific Horizon Pool

[curttc]

Currently, I am working on automating an automatic sign off of a specific Horizon Pool via PowerCLI. The sign off functionality works no problem, but I am wanting to send a message to all machines in this pool notifying users that the machines will be logged off in X amount of minutes. The most feasible way to do this via the API seems to be using the session_sendmessages method. 

So far, I know I can grab session ids using Get-HVLocalSession. This works fine, but it lists all current session ids, and I only need the ids from a specific desktop pool. If I can figure out how to narrow down the results, I should be able to use the following command via the API documentation:

$Services1.session.Session_SendMessages($session.id, "INFO", "Test message")

Does anyone know of a way to narrow down the results of Get-HVLocalSession to specific desktop pool ids?

[fabio1975]

Ciao

Try this script, I've done some tests and it seems to work (Try it first in test environment before add the send message command and logoff command 🙂 )

Connect-HVServer <Horizon Server>
$PoolName="<PoolName to export SessionId>"
$sessions=@()
$sessions=(get-hvlocalsession).namesdata
$sessionsID=@()
$PoolsessionID=@()
$sessionsID=(get-hvlocalsession).id
for ($i=0; $i -lt $sessions.length; $i++) {
        if ( $sessions[$i].DesktopName -eq $PoolName )
               {
              $PoolsessionID+=$sessionsID[$i]
              }
}

In the array $PoolsessionID you will have the list of session ids.

I hope to be proved helpful.

Fabio 

blog: BIOLNX – vmvirtual.blog

[curttc]

Sorry for the delay in my response. I just now noticed it.

This worked perfectly!

Thank you so much!