I have a vm creation script that I modified to be able to be able to run in a loop using a CSV file to create more than one VM at a time. My initial script would send me an email stating for example:
VM | IPaddress | CPU | Memory | ToolsVer | ToolStatus | DataStore | Folder | ESXiHost |
myvm
| 123.45.67.89 | 3 | 4096 | 8384 | toolsOk | myds | my-folder
| myesxhost
|
The problem I want to try and figure out is how can I get ALL tthe VM's to report on one single email report. Right now since it is looping, every VM I create will send out a report. So if I set it up to build 4 vm's, it will send 4 emails.. I don't like that.
How my script works pretty much...
foreach($var in $vmlist){
script here
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######################## Create and Send Email Report - Start ###############################################
#
Function Create-HTMLTable {
param([array]$Array)
$arrHTML = $Array | ConvertTo-Html
$arrHTML[-1] = $arrHTML[-1].ToString().Replace(‘</body></html>’,"")
Return $arrHTML[5..2000]
}
$output = @()
$output += '<html><head></head><body><style>table{border-style:solid;border-width:1px;font-size:8pt;background-color:#ccc;width:100%;}th{text-align:left;}td{background-color:#fff;width:20%;border-style:solid;border-width:1px;}body{font-family:verdana;font-size:12pt;}h1{font-size:12pt;}h2{font-size:10pt;}</style>'
$output += ‘<H2>The vms that were created</H2>'
$output += ‘<H2> </H2>'
#$Report = @()
$Report = New-Object -TypeName system.collections.arraylist
foreach ($vm in get-vm -Name $var.myvms )
{
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$report.add($reportedvm)|out-null
}
if ($HTML -eq "yes") {
$output += '<p>'
$output += '<p>'
$output += Create-HTMLTable $report $output += '</p>'
$output += '</body></html>'
$output | Add-Content $FileHTML
}
if ($SendEmail -eq "yes") {
$body = Get-Content $FileHTML | out-String
Send-MailMessage –From $EmailFrom –To $EmailTo –Subject $EmailSubject –SmtpServer $EmailSMTP -Body $body -BodyAsHtml }
#
}
