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The term 'out-chart' is not recognized as a cmd
again.
At line:1 char:39
+ get-wmiobject win32_winstat | out-chart <<<<

On Aug 10, 9:04 am, Patrick R. <Patri...@discussions.microsoft.com>
wrote:
> The term 'out-chart' is not recognized as a cmd
> again.
> At line:1 char:39
> + get-wmiobject win32_winstat | out-chart <<<<

Out-Chart isn't a built-in PowerShell cmdlet... It comes with
PowerGadgets(http://www.powergadgets.com/), I believe. Do you have
PowerGadgets installed?

Jeff

Jeff, you are probably correct but I copied a portion of the file that was
the content for a video from Microsoft on using Powershell and it worked well
for him so I don't know. But thanks for the reply.
Patrick

10. Collecting Windows System Assessment Tool data from the command line.
The Windows System Assessment Tool (WSAT) provides numeric ratings (1= bad,
5=good) of system performance for processor, disk, graphics, etc so you can
get a summary and potential solutions for improving performance. Because this
data is stored in WMI, Windows PowerShell can programmatically collect this
data from multiple computers and allow you to quickly evaluate the health of
a set of machines without having to log in to each one. Here is a command to
get WSAT data from a single Vista machine and format it in a nice, auto-sized
table for viewing. Also an example of a PowerGadgets chart.
PS> get-wmiobject win32_winsat | format-table __SERVER, *SCORE -autosize
PS> get-wmiobject win32_winsat | select *score | out-chart -Title "System
Assessment Scores by PowerGadgets"




"Jeff" wrote:

> On Aug 10, 9:04 am, Patrick R. <Patri...@discussions.microsoft.com>
> wrote:
> > The term 'out-chart' is not recognized as a cmd
> > again.
> > At line:1 char:39
> > + get-wmiobject win32_winstat | out-chart <<<<
>
> Out-Chart isn't a built-in PowerShell cmdlet... It comes with
> PowerGadgets(http://www.powergadgets.com/), I believe. Do you have
> PowerGadgets installed?
>
> Jeff
>
>

This is a powergadget snap-in that has to be installed separately from
powershell.
The code you provided eludes this this (ever so vaguely)
get-wmiobject win32_winsat | select *score | out-chart -Title "System
Assessment Scores by PowerGadgets"

"Patrick R." <PatrickR@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:F249F8A3-293B-4FB8-94D8-5AC9FFE0E2CF@microsoft.com...
> Jeff, you are probably correct but I copied a portion of the file that was
> the content for a video from Microsoft on using Powershell and it worked
> well
> for him so I don't know. But thanks for the reply.
> Patrick
>
> 10. Collecting Windows System Assessment Tool data from the command line.
> The Windows System Assessment Tool (WSAT) provides numeric ratings (1=
> bad,
> 5=good) of system performance for processor, disk, graphics, etc so you
> can
> get a summary and potential solutions for improving performance. Because
> this
> data is stored in WMI, Windows PowerShell can programmatically collect
> this
> data from multiple computers and allow you to quickly evaluate the health
> of
> a set of machines without having to log in to each one. Here is a command
> to
> get WSAT data from a single Vista machine and format it in a nice,
> auto-sized
> table for viewing. Also an example of a PowerGadgets chart.
> PS> get-wmiobject win32_winsat | format-table __SERVER, *SCORE -autosize
> PS> get-wmiobject win32_winsat | select *score | out-chart -Title "System
> Assessment Scores by PowerGadgets"
>
>
>
>
> "Jeff" wrote:
>
>> On Aug 10, 9:04 am, Patrick R. <Patri...@discussions.microsoft.com>
>> wrote:
>> > The term 'out-chart' is not recognized as a cmd
>> > again.
>> > At line:1 char:39
>> > + get-wmiobject win32_winstat | out-chart <<<<
>>
>> Out-Chart isn't a built-in PowerShell cmdlet... It comes with
>> PowerGadgets(http://www.powergadgets.com/), I believe. Do you have
>> PowerGadgets installed?
>>
>> Jeff
>>
>>

Patrick R. wrote:
> Jeff, you are probably correct but I copied a portion of the file that was
> the content for a video from Microsoft on using Powershell and it worked well
> for him so I don't know. But thanks for the reply.
> Patrick
>
> 10. Collecting Windows System Assessment Tool data from the command line.
> The Windows System Assessment Tool (WSAT) provides numeric ratings (1= bad,
> 5=good) of system performance for processor, disk, graphics, etc so you can
> get a summary and potential solutions for improving performance. Because this
> data is stored in WMI, Windows PowerShell can programmatically collect this
> data from multiple computers and allow you to quickly evaluate the health of
> a set of machines without having to log in to each one. Here is a command to
> get WSAT data from a single Vista machine and format it in a nice, auto-sized
> table for viewing. Also an example of a PowerGadgets chart.
> PS> get-wmiobject win32_winsat | format-table __SERVER, *SCORE -autosize
> PS> get-wmiobject win32_winsat | select *score | out-chart -Title "System
> Assessment Scores by PowerGadgets"

Yup, he says "PowerGadgets" right in the last line above.

There may be other implementations of out-chart, but this is definitely
PowerGadgets being used.

You can get a free 60 day trial or apply for their own "MVP" program.

Marco

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