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SystemAdmin
SystemAdmin

Reputation: 21

Write-Eventlog pipe issue

Task: Writing piped data from object to eventlog:

RecId|Date/Time|Sev|Src|EvtType|Sensor|EvtDetail
0001|01/01/1600:00:00|INF|BMC|Eventlog|SELFullness|LogCleared
0002|01/01/1600:00:01|MAJ|BMC|Eventlog|Progress|PostError
0003|01/01/1600:00:02|INF|BMC|PowerUnit|HostPower|PowerOff
0004|01/01/1600:00:03|MAJ|BMC|SystemFirmware|SELFullness|PostError
0005|01/01/1600:00:04|INF|BMC|OsBoot||C:bootcompleted

This little CSV is stored in D:\Powershell\Bmc.log is nearly a parsed output of ipmitool.exe (isel -c) on a server.

$raw = Get-Content .\Bmc.log
$sel = ConvertFrom-CSV -InputObject $raw -Delimiter "|"
$sel | Where-Object {$_.Sev -eq "INF"} | Out-GridView

This works well, I can use $sel as object, can list its members etc. Now I want to dump all records to eventlog, but it does not work. My Approach:

New-Eventlog -LogName HardwareEvents -Source BMC
$sel | Where-Object {$_.Sev -eq "INF"} | Write-Eventlog -LogName HardwareEvents -Source BMC -EventId 999 -Message {$_.EvtDetail} -EntryType INFORMATION

It seems that Write-Eventlog does not accept pipes. Aim is not to use a loop.

Upvotes: 0

Views: 467

Answers (1)

Ansgar Wiechers
Ansgar Wiechers

Reputation: 200503

As you suspected and others have pointed out, Write-EventLog doesn't read from the pipeline. Wrap it in a ForEach-Object statement:

$sel | Where-Object {$_.Sev -eq "INF"} | ForEach-Object {
  Write-EventLog -LogName HardwareEvents -Source BMC -EventId 999 -Message $_.EvtDetail -EntryType INFORMATION
}

Otherwise you'd need to wrap Write-EventLog in a custom function that does process pipeline input:

function Write-EventLogMessage {
  [CmdletBinding()]
  Param(
    [Parameter(
      Mandatory=$true,
      Position=0
      ValueFromPipeline=$true,
      ValueFromPipelineByPropertyName=$true
    )]
    [string]$Message
  )

  Process {
    Write-EventLog -LogName HardwareEvents -Source BMC -EventId 999 -Message $Message -EntryType INFORMATION
  }
}

$sel | Where-Object {$_.Sev -eq "INF"} | Write-EventLogMessage

Upvotes: 1

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