Get-VIEvent to find vm name?

[mooreka]

Hello There,

Is there a way to get the vm name from get-vievent?

I am trying to find all vm's created in the last day (easy) and then get-vm...basic idea...

Get-VIEvent -maxsamples 20000 -Start (Get-Date).AddDays(-1) | where {$_.Gettype().Name -eq "VmBeingDeployedEvent|VmCreatedEvent|VmRegisteredEvent|VmClonedEvent"} | select Username, CreatedTime, FullFormattedMessage |

%{ get-vm $vm}

Thanks for the help!

[LucD]

If you only need the VM name, that property is present in the Event object that is returned by Get-VIEvent.

$eventTypes = "VmBeingDeployedEvent","VmCreatedEvent","VmRegisteredEvent","VmClonedEvent" 
Get-VIEvent -maxsamples 20000 -Start (Get-Date).AddDays(-1) |
 where {$eventTypes -contains $_.Gettype().Name} | 
select Username, CreatedTime, FullFormattedMessage,@{N="VM";E={$_.VM.Name}}

[mooreka]

Thanks LucD for the quick reply and direction.

I just tried adding that and now I get no output.

Any ideas?

Thanks!

[LucD · Accepted solution]

I didn't look closely at your Where-clause, it should be like the code above.

Please try it like that.

[mooreka]

beautiful.

thanks!