need to get time host was put in maintenance mode and annotation

[SG1234]

Hi -- is it possible to get the time a host was put in maintenance mode and also grab any annotation attached to the ESX host in VC?

thanks

~Sai

[kunaludapi]

Get-vmhost | Get-VIEvent | Where {$_.fullFormattedMessage -like "*has entered maintenance mode*"}

Get-vmhost | Get-annotation

[SG1234]

is there any way these timings can be obtained even if the event logs get cleared ?

[SG1234]

hi - am trying the following to get the hostname and time it went into maint mode - but somehow the second coloumn is not populating - can someone please correct me whats wrong

[vSphere PowerCLI]get-vmhost  | where-object {$_.connectionstate -match "maint*"} | sele

t @{n="Name of ESX host";e={$_.name}},@{N="time put in maintmode";E={ get-vmhos

$_|get-vievent| Where {$_.fullFormattedMessage -like "*has entered maintenance

mode*"}}}

~Sai Garimella

[LittleNickey]

t @{n="Name of ESX host";e={$_.name}},@{N="time put in maintmode";E={ get-vmhos $_|get-vievent| Where {$_.fullFormattedMessage -like "*has entered maintenance

is this a typo in the code or did you miss to copy the "t"?

[LittleNickey · Accepted solution]

Also using "get-vmhost" a second time is redundant since you have piped from get-vmhost: "E={ get-vmhost $_ | get-vievent"

Your command will however return the whole Event object and look something like:

Name                                    Event

----                                    -----

host                      {VMware.Vim.EnteredMaintenanceModeEv...

You can try below instead:

Get-VMHost | ?{$_.ConnectionState -match "Maintenance"} | select Name, @{N="Time put in MaintMode";E={($_ | Get-VIEvent | ?{$_.FullFormattedMessage -like "*has entered maintenance mode*"}).CreatedTime}}

But this can still retrieve multiple events, so one way to only get the last event and time is below:

Get-VMHost | ?{$_.ConnectionState -match "Maintenance"} | select Name, @{N="Time put in MaintMode";E={($_ | Get-VIEvent | ?{$_.FullFormattedMessage -like "*has entered maintenance mode*"} | select -last 1).CreatedTime}}