Excel report Formatting in PowerShell - excel

Question

Need help to create a script to get a HPOA server blade Health report
The problem is that when I get query Health it outputs in a PSO object with fields (IP,Health,Blades(#{Blade1 Health}{Blade2 Health}{3} . . .) )
I want a report like below
IP Bay Power Health
-- --- ----- -----
10.3.131.2 1 On OK
2 On OK
3 On OK
4 On OK
5 On Degraded
The variables are derived as below .
$sstaInfo = {} | Select IP, Bay, Power, Health, DeviceFailure
$sstaInfo.IP=$ssta.IP (Gives a single IP output)
$sstaInfo.Bay=$sstaBlades.Bay $sstaInfo.Power=$sstaBlades.Power
$sstaInfo.Health=$sstaBlades.Health
How can I get this working ?
$ssta variable has the below output :
#{Power=On; CurrentWattageUsed=480; Health=OK; UnitIdentificationLED=Off; VirtualFan=33%; DiagnosticStatus=; Bay=1} #{Power=On; CurrentWattageUsed=576; Health=OK; UnitIdentificationLED=Off; VirtualFan=47%; DiagnosticStatus=; Bay=2}
#------------------------------------------------------------ Input Variable Definations
$HPOAServers =#(
[pscustomobject]#{Name='10.11.12.13'},
[pscustomobject]#{Name='10.11.12.14'}
)
$Username ="admin"
$Password ="admin"
#------------------------------------------------------------ Main Script Starts Here
# Function for connecting to OA and returning connection object on success
foreach ($HPOAServer in $HPOAServers) {
$con = Connect-HPOA $HPOAServer.Name -username $Username -password $Password
$report = #()
$ssta = Get-HPOAServerStatus -Bay All $con
$sstaBlade=$ssta.Blade
Write-Host $sstaBlade
Foreach ($sstaBlades in $sstaBlade) {
$i++
$sstaInfo = {} | Select IP, Bay, Power, Health, DeviceFailure
$sstaInfo.IP=$ssta.IP
$sstaInfo.Bay=$sstaBlades.Bay
$sstaInfo.Power=$sstaBlades.Power
$sstaInfo.Health=$sstaBlades.Health
$sstaInfo.DeviceFailure=$ssta.Blade.DiagnosticStatus.DeviceFailure
}
$report += $ssta | Select-Object -Property IP
$report += $ssta.Blade | Select-Object -Property Bay, Power, Health | Format-Table *
$report | out-file "HPOA_Health_Report.txt" -Append
}
Disconnect-HPOA $con

Answer 1

I suggest you use Export-CSV instead, so below line
$report | Out-File "HPOA_Health_Report.txt" -Append
will be replaced by:
$report | Export-Csv "HPOA_Health_Report.csv" -Append -NoTypeInformation

Answer 2

Function HPOA () {
try
{
Remove-Item -Path $outputfile -Force
foreach ($HPOAServer in $HPOAServers)
{
$con = Connect-HPOA $HPOAServer.Name -username $Username -password $Password -ErrorAction 'Stop'
$ssta = Get-HPOAServerStatus -Bay All $con
$ssta.Blade | Foreach-Object {
$sstaInfo = $_
$sstaInfo | Select-Object -Property #{Name="Chassis_IP_Address";Expression={$ssta.IP}},
#{Name="Blade_Power_Status";Expression={$_.Power}},
#{Name="Blade_Bay_Number";Expression={$_.Bay}},
#{Name="Blade_Health_Status";Expression={$_.Health}},
#{Name="Blade_Diagnostic_DeviceFailure_Status";Expression={$ssta.Blade.DiagnosticStatus.DeviceFailure}}
} | ConvertTo-Html -Title " $HPOARegionName HPOA Health Report " -Head $Header -Body "<H2> $HPOARegionName HPOA Health Report </H2>" -As Table | Out-File -Append $outputfile
Disconnect-HPOA $con
}
}
catch
{
$ErrorMessage = $_.Exception.Message
$FailedItem = $_.Exception.ItemName
Write-Host $ErrorMessage
Write-Host $FailedItem
}
}
HPOA