Show output of steps of PS script

Hi,

I have been looking, but so far have not been able to find, a way to
output the steps of a script, either to screen or to file.

The exact purpose in this case has to do with System Center Data
Protection Manager 2007. We have been able to create a basic script
that will export tapes for the library to the I/E port so we can send
them off-site. However, we would like a per-tape output so we can
monitor (live, with output to screen) or later on (with the output
sent to a logfile) the progress of the script.

Write-Progress can only give me a progressbar, but surely it must be
possible to show something like below?

B00000002
B00000034
B00000067
B00000098
B00000107

As this is more of a general PS question I decided to post it here and
cross-post it to the DPM group.

Kind regards,

LF

I've no experience with DPM, but will try to help...

Write-host "something"
and
add-content some_file "something"

Are cmdlets that can write information to the screen/console and a file
respectively.

Can we see a copy of this script? Just to know what cmdlets are being used.

Marco

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Marco,

Below is the script. It is all still very basic with just doing what
it needs to do - our first goal now is to get a set of working scripts
to get the tape handling right.

=== BOS ===

$DPMLib = Get-DPMLibrary -DPMServerName "DPMServer1"
$Tape = Get-Tape -DPMLibrary $DPMLib
$export = $tape | where-object {$_.isoffsiteready -eq "True"} | where-
object {$_.displaystring -like "*Offsite*"}
remove-tape -tape $export -DPMLibrary $DPMLib

=== OES ===

Tnx,

LF

On 31 jan, 15:05, "Marco Shaw [MVP]" <marco.shaw@_NO_SPAM_gmail.com>
wrote:

I have a feeling that $export is an array of tapes. Try this:

$DPMLib = Get-DPMLibrary -DPMServerName "DPMServer1"
$Tape = Get-Tape -DPMLibrary $DPMLib
$export = $tape | where-object {$_.isoffsiteready -eq "True"} | where-
object {$_.displaystring -like "*Offsite*"}
foreach($tape in $export){
write-host "Removing $tape..."
remove-tape -tape $tape -DPMLibrary $DPMLib
}

Try wrapping your script in calls to Start-Transcript and Stop-Transcript
e.g.L

Start-Transcript DPM.log
$DPMLib = Get-DPMLibrary -DPMServerName "DPMServer1"
$Tapes = Get-Tape -DPMLibrary $DPMLib
$exports = $tape | where {$_.isoffsiteready -and ($_.displaystring -match
"Offsite")}
$exports | foreach { "output some info here"; remove-tape -tape
$_ -DPMLibrary $DPMLib }
Stop-Transcript

Note: If the remove-tape has a -Verbose parameter you might want to use it.
Also if you already have a transcript running for your shell sesssion you
will need to stop it. There can only be one transcript started at any one
time in a shell session.

--
Keith

"LordFox" <rick.harderwijk@xxxxxx> wrote in message
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LordFox,

Did you manage to get this script running. I too have been searching for a way to eject tapes that are offsite ready via the I/E port on our ADIC Scalar24 SCSI Tape Libray.

I have tried the suggetsed scripts, but they always error on the remove-tape cmdlet section.

If you have had any further success,could you please share it with me

Thanks

Michael