Thanks

thanks

$var | measure-object

This will get you what you want but it does not just give you the value. It will output more information then they were looking for. They also tried:

$var| measure-object | select-object count

This will work as well but this will also give the header and they did not want that so the easiest way to do this is to do a get-member on var and see if it gives you what you want as a property on that object.

you will see a length property. so if you say $var.length that will tell you how many entries are in the array…

hope that helps

It seems that the questions are related to reading in the file that holds the instance information. You can see that this is the line that reads in the file.

$servers = Import-Csv "\\ent-pocpacapcx01\d$\monitoring\sqltab.txt"

So you need to make sure that you change that path and file name to where your server file is. Lets go over the block that defines what has been read in so we can define what the csv file needs to look like.

foreach ($entry in $servers)
{
$torp = $entry.TorP
$mon = $entry.monitor
$machine = $entry.server
$errorlog = $entry.errorlog
$os = $entry.os2000
$iname = $entry.Instance
if ($iname -eq "Null")
{
$instance = "$machine"
}
else
{
$instance = "$machine\$iname"
}
}
$instance = $instance.toupper()

What we can see is that I am looking at everything that the import-csv brought in to the $servers variable. Then I am defining some variables and you may not have all of these in your csv file. but if you look at $entry._____, that ______ is what my header information is. You need to make sure that your CSV file has the header information that you want to have in it. You might not have a errorlog or a TORP header because you may not need them. Just make sure that you modify either your file or this code so that they all match up. Then you should not have issues with the file not reading in correctly. Please let me know if you have any questions. leave me a comment and I will try to respond but you can also hit me up on twitter @smithco32 and I will get back to you.

Thanks and I hope that this helps.

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Pop in your search and it will give you a link to send back to them and it will get the point across. Great site and I hope that it will help you teach people how to search and think for themselves.

I know that I was a bit afraid of trying to get my foot in the door with the communtiy, and I think that a lot of people are like me in that respect. The thing with this communtiy is that you do not have to be. No question is dumb or below anybody to answer. We have all probably had that question or one similiar.

If you want to get involved then become a member of PASS and also get on Twitter if you are not already. I have never been a big fan of social networking like Twitter but it is an invaluable tool for beinbg involved in the SQL Server community. When I signed up I only followed a few people, only people like MR. Denny (Blog | Twitter) and Brent Ozar( Blog| Twitter), because I read the blogs all the time. That is where I started and I also read Brent Ozars blog post about Twitter. He talks about following groups, and I recommend that, as well as the #sqlhelp hashtag which works really well.

Also do not be afraid to tweet. Get involved and let people know that you want to be involved. Do that and you will see that we all are on the same team and are willing to help everyone out if we can.

I hope that this helps and I hope to see you out there.