vCheck Report exclude specific cluster

[krisnz]

How can use the vCheck Daily report to exclude specific cluster and all the Hosts, Datastores, VM's, warnings etc within that cluster from reporting..

http://www.virtu-al.net/vcheck-pluginsheaders/vcheck/

[LucD]

Afaik such functionality is not foreseen in the current vCheck script.

But you achieve something like this by editing the 00 Connection Plugin for vCenter.ps1 file.

In that file all the VMs, Hosts, Clusters... are collected. By editing these lines you can easily exclude a specific cluster and all its child nodes.

For example:

$excludeName = "NotThisCluster"

Write-CustomOut "Collecting Cluster Objects"
$Clusters = Get-Cluster |  Where {$_.Name -ne $excludeName} | Sort Name

....

And then you get the VMs, hosts, datastore only for the selected clusters.

Write-CustomOut "Collecting VM Objects"
$VM = Get-VM -Location $Clusters | Sort Name
...

[krisnz]

Appreciate your quick reply.

I tried the following but its not filtering all the child objects

Write-CustomOut "Collecting Cluster Objects"

$Clusters = Get-Cluster | Sort Name | select name | where {$_.name -match 'xxxx'}

[LucD]

In the code you used the $cluster variable will only contain the name of the cluster, not the cluster object as the vCheck script expects.

Did you also adapt the other Get- lines with the Location parameter ?

[krisnz]

will this work.. and do i need to add location for get-view

$ReportCluster = "clust01","clust02","clust03","clust04"

Write-CustomOut "Collecting Cluster Objects"

$Clusters = Get-Cluster | Where {$_.Name -eq $ReportCluster} | Sort Name

Write-CustomOut "Collecting VM Objects"

$VM = Get-VM -Location $Clusters | Sort Name

Write-CustomOut "Collecting VM Host Objects"

$VMH = Get-VMHost -Location $Clusters | Sort Name

Write-CustomOut "Collecting Datastore Objects"

$Datastores = Get-Datastore -Location $Clusters | Sort Name

Write-CustomOut "Collecting Detailed VM Objects"

$FullVM = Get-View -ViewType VirtualMachine | Where {-not $_.Config.Template}

Write-CustomOut "Collecting Template Objects"

$VMTmpl = Get-Template -Location $Clusters

Write-CustomOut "Collecting Detailed VI Objects"

$ServiceInstance = get-view ServiceInstance

Write-CustomOut "Collecting Detailed Alarm Objects"

$alarmMgr = get-view $serviceInstance.Content.alarmManager

Write-CustomOut "Collecting Detailed VMHost Objects"

$HostsViews = Get-View -ViewType hostsystem

Write-CustomOut "Collecting Detailed Cluster Objects"

$clusviews = Get-View -ViewType ClusterComputeResource

Write-CustomOut "Collecting Detailed Datastore Objects"

$storageviews = Get-View -ViewType Datastore

[LucD · Accepted solution]

The Get-View cmdlet doesn't have a Location parameter, it uses the SearchRoot to do the same thing.

Taking that into account, it could be something like this

Write-CustomOut "Collecting Detailed VM Objects" 
$FullVM = $Clusters | %{
  Get-View -ViewType VirtualMachine -SearchRoot $_.ExtensionData.MoRef `
  -Filter @{"Config.Template"="False"}
}

Notice the use of the Filter parameter to replace the Wher-clause.

But you can also use the fact that the ExtensionData property maps to the vSphere object.

And then the code could be something like this

$ReportCluster = "clust01","clust02","clust03","clust04" 
Write-CustomOut "Collecting Cluster Objects" 
$Clusters = Get-Cluster -Name $ReportCluster | Sort Name 
Write-CustomOut "Collecting VM Objects" 
$VM = Get-VM -Location $Clusters | Sort Name 
Write-CustomOut "Collecting VM Host Objects" 
$VMH = Get-VMHost -Location $Clusters | Sort Name
 Write-CustomOut "Collecting Datastore Objects" 
$Datastores = Get-Datastore -Location $Clusters | Sort Name 
Write-CustomOut "Collecting Detailed VM Objects" 
$FullVM = $VM | %{$_.ExtensionData}
Write-CustomOut "Collecting Template Objects" 
$VMTmpl = Get-Template -Location $Clusters 
Write-CustomOut "Collecting Detailed VI Objects"
 $ServiceInstance = get-view ServiceInstance 
Write-CustomOut "Collecting Detailed Alarm Objects" 
$alarmMgr = get-view $serviceInstance.Content.alarmManager 
Write-CustomOut "Collecting Detailed VMHost Objects"
 $HostsViews = $VMH | %{$_.ExtensionData}
Write-CustomOut "Collecting Detailed Cluster Objects"
 $clusviews = $Clusters | %{$_.ExtensionData}
Write-CustomOut "Collecting Detailed Datastore Objects" 
$storageviews = $Datastores | %{$_.ExtensionData}

[krisnz]

explained really well. thanks