kosovjanko
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‎05-31-2011 02:00 AM

Get-DesktopVM status from View pool Inventory tab with PowerCLI

Hello!

Is there a way to get the status of the DesktopVM using PowerCLI (some other option, besides looking at it?). I'm referring to the status column one sees by navigating in View Admin: Left side menu -> Inventory -> Pools -> (select a pool) -> (select Inventory tab of the selected pool) next to the Task column.

Any hint appreciated!

Regards, Blaz

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s0kud0
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‎09-02-2011 08:34 AM

I am trying to get this as well.. I am trying to see when certain VM desktops are in a certain state and then remove them if they are.. the example I have is that we have Desktops that go into an "Already Used" state which from my searching seems to be an acknowledged status that is not considered a "bad" thing by VMWare but this causes problems in automatic pools as desktops in that state count against the spare desktop count therefore stopping users from getting in.. I am trying to write a script to counteract this by simply removing any desktops that enter this state as at that point they are useless.. we are already doing this manually but it is a pain..

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uday_s
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‎02-21-2012 11:43 PM

The status of the desktop reported in Admin UI is combination of ADAM data and the latest volatile state reported by Agent to Broker.

There's a no Powershell equivalent to get the states. But you can query the ADAM to get the state.

1. Check if the Agent is responsive vdmadmin -A -d desktopname -m machinename -getversion

2. Check if the VM is READY and has zero sessions (use Get-DesktopVm cmdlet)

3. Machine entry in ADAM has the pae-dirtyfornewsessions attribute set to 1 for this desktop

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