Gather IP information from Multiple Servers

Gateway to PowerShell Scripting

One of the admins on my team asked the question to me, “How would I get the gateway information from a list of servers?”

I stopped to ponder this issue, and immediately said, “WMI queries is the way I would do this.”

The Thought Process to Select WMI

In my environment PowerShell remoting isn’t configured everywhere, so it wouldn’t be a good option.… Continue reading

Using PowerCLI to set IP and Update VMware Tools

This is a continuation of my last post, Using PowerCli to Build multiple VMs.

After automating the building of VMs, what’s the sense of having to manually add the IP information or updating the VMware tools? It’s pointless. So we need to add the IP information to the CSV file that was used to build the VMs.… Continue reading