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Displaying data from multiple servers as HTML

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A forum question regarding retrieving WMI based data from multiple servers and displaying it as HTML was interesting.  I would approach it like this

$servers = Get-Content -Path C:\scripts\servers.txt
$data = @()
foreach ($server in $servers){
 $compdata = New-Object -TypeName PSObject -Property @{
  Computer = $server
  Contactable = $false
  LastBootTime = ""
  AllowTSConnections = $false
 }
 if (Test-Connection -ComputerName $server -Quiet -Count 1){
   $compdata.Contactable = $true
   $os = Get-WmiObject -Class Win32_OperatingSystem -ComputerName $server
   $compdata.LastBootTime = $os.ConvertToDateTime($os.LastBootUpTime)
   $ts = Get-WmiObject -Namespace root\cimv2\terminalservices -Class Win32_TerminalServiceSetting -ComputerName $server -Authentication PacketPrivacy
   if ($ts.AllowTSConnections -eq 1){
    $compdata.AllowTSConnections = $true
   }
 }
 $data += $compdata
}
$data
$data | ConvertTo-Html | Out-File -FilePath c:\scripts\report.html
Invoke-Item -Path c:\scripts\report.html

Put the list of servers in a text file & read it in via get-content.

use foreach to iterate over the list of servers.

For each server create an object and then test if you can ping the server. Note that the default setting for Contactable is $false so don’t need to deal with that case.

Get the WMI data and set the properties on the object.

Add the object to an array

After you’ve hit all the servers use ConvertTo-Html and write to a file with out-file.

use Invoke-Item to view the report

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