auto exporting diagnostic data from VC

[bubzie]

I am trying to create script in which I'll catch the problem occurence with (if) then export out VC diagnostic bundle, everything is ready, with exception exporting diagnostic data from VC part,

I tried to work with get-log but it seems does not have an option to collect entire VC logs and export out as zip, I also tried using method from VI SDK, but I am a bit at a loss at this point with

diagnosticManager -> GenerateLogBundles_Task (method)

any help is appreciated, thanks!

[halr9000]

That cmdlet has a second parameter set which is triggered by adding the Bundle boolean. See this table:

   ParameterSet: logSet

Name         Type       IsMandatory Pipeline
----         ----       ----------- --------
Key          String[]          True     True
VMHost       VMHost[]         False     True
StartLineNum Int32            False    False
NumLines     Int32            False    False
Server       VIServer[]       False    False


   ParameterSet: logBundleSet

Name            Type       IsMandatory Pipeline
----            ----       ----------- --------
VMHost          VMHost[]         False     True
Bundle          Boolean          False    False
DestinationPath String            True    False
Server          VIServer[]       False    False
RunAsync        Boolean          False    False

You use it like so (after connecting to the log source, e.g. vc or esx):

get-log -bundle:$true -destinationpath c:\logs -runasync

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[bubzie]

halr9000, Arigato Tres-mucho!!! I was hitting my head for few hours...

[halr9000]

De nada papel nein borscht?

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[bubzie]

halr9000, forgot to ask, in addition if one wants to specify hosts (within cluster), datacenter etc, what would be the parameterSet to specify? Thanks.

[halr9000]

If you look at my table, you'll see the VMHost param accepts values on the pipeline. Therefore, what I'd do is something like this:

get-cluster foo | get-vmhost | get-log ...

That would work against all hosts in the "foo" cluster.

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[bubzie]

Again, Mucho Arigato Schoen, halr9000!