Need help with script to find vm's by IP

[Gratts01]

Looking for a script that will match vm's to IP's but need to be able to search several ip's at once.

I have put this together from scripts on the net, which works well to search one IP at a time:

$match_address = Read-Host "Enter IP address to find"

Get-VM | %{

  $vmips = $_.Guest.IPAddress

  foreach($ip in $vmips) {

  if ($ip -like $match_address) {

  "Found VM with matching address: {0}" -f $_.Name

  }

  }

  }

But would need to be able to enter several IP's from different subnets into the $match_address and have the script search for a match for each ip.

[MKguy]

Try this function I wrote for this purpose:

function Search-VMIP {
<#
.SYNOPSIS
Searches for VMs by IP-Addresses specified as a comma-separated list. 

.PARAMETER IPs
Comma-separated list of IP-Addresses to be used for the search. 

.EXAMPLE
Search-VMIP -IPs '10.1.1.1,10.2.2.2,192.168.1.1' 

#Requires -Version 2.0
#>

  [CmdletBinding()]
  Param(
    [string][parameter(Mandatory=$true)] $IPs
  )

  $VMs = Get-VM
  $IPList = $IPs -split ','

  ForEach ($IP in $IPList) {
     if (!($IP -As [IPAddress]) -As [Bool]) {
       Throw "Error: $IP does not look like a valid IP address."
     }
      else {
        $ret = $VMs | Where-Object {$_.Guest.IPAddress -eq $IP} | Select Name, @{N='IP'; E={$_.Guest.IPAddress}}
        if ($ret) {
          $ret
        }
        else {
          Write "Could not find a VM with IP $IP."
        }
    }
  }
} 

Use it like Search-VMIP -IPs '10.1.1.1,10.2.2.2,192.168.1.1'

[Gratts01]

Thanks for the quick response but unfortunately the script does not work for me. When I enter Search-VMIP -IPs "ipaddress,ipaddress"  the script does not even search it goes imediatlly back to a prompt.

I've also tried this which work with individual IP's but as soon as more then one ip is entered the results are blank?

$match_address = Read-Host "Type IPs Coma Seperated"

$IPList = $match_address -split ','

ForEach ($IP in $IPList)

{

Get-VM | %{

      $vmIPs = $_.Guest.IPAddress

      foreach($ip in $vmIPs) {

          if ($ip -eq $IPList) {

              "Found VM with matching address: {0}" -f $_.Name

          }

      }

  }

}

[ccalvetTCC · Accepted solution]

Could you please try this?

function Search-VMAssociatedToIP{

param(

$ArrayOfIPToCheck

)

process{

    $VMsAndAssociatedIP = get-view -viewtype "virtualmachine" | foreach-object{

    $VM = $_

        $_.guest.net | foreach-object{

        $Net = $_

            $_.IpAddress | foreach-object{

            $IpAddress = $_

                                $Output = New-Object -Type PSObject -Prop ([ordered]@{

                                'VM' = $VM.Name

                                'NetworkName' = $Net.Network

                                'IpAddress' = $IpAddress

                                })  

                                Return $Output

            }

        }

    }

    $ArrayOfIPToCheck | foreach-object{

    $IPtoCheck = $_

    $VMsAndAssociatedIP | where {$_.IpAddress -eq $IPtoCheck} | foreach-object{

                                $Output = New-Object -Type PSObject -Prop ([ordered]@{

                                'IpToCheck' = $IPtoCheck

                                'VM' = $_.VM

                                'NetworkName' = $_.NetworkName

                                'IpAddress' = $_.IpAddress

                                })  

                                Return $Output

    }

    }

}

}

$MyArray = "10.0.33.1","10.0.30.11","10.0.20.11","10.0.32.1"

Search-VMAssociatedToIP -ArrayOfIPToCheck $MyArray | ogv

Use an array as input.

First get IPs of all VMs (Only for VMs with VMware tools properly installed) based on get-view so the collection will be fast.

Then compare with the IPs provided as input.