ForEach loop over string in powershell

Question

I am trying to find all last job statuses fro a list of VMs backed up with veeam backup. Strangely the loop do not go to the next vm. Here is what I do:

Add-PSSnapin VeeamPSSnapin
$VMlist = "vm1, vm2" 
$VMlist = $VMlist.split(",");
Foreach ($i in $VMlist) {

    foreach($Job in (Get-VBRJob))
{
        $Session = $Job.FindLastSession()
        if(!$Session){continue;}
        $Tasks = $Session.GetTaskSessions()
        $Tasks | ?{$_.Name -eq $VMlist} | %{write-host $_.Name ":" $_.Status}

It seems I have a problem in the for each loop, since it stuck and I do not get any output. What is thebest way to iterate over the slit of VMs?

Thanks in advance!

henrycarteruk · Accepted Answer · 2019-02-12 10:07:36Z

2

You're looking for the $VMList array in $Tasks not the individual VM $i, just change: {$_.Name -eq $i}

Also your VM names will include leading spaces, either remove the spaces from your input string "vm1,vm2", or use Trim() after Split()

Add-PSSnapin VeeamPSSnapin
$VMlist = "vm1,vm2" 
$VMlist = $VMlist.split(",");
foreach ($i in $VMlist) {
    foreach ($Job in (Get-VBRJob)) {
        $Session = $Job.FindLastSession()
        if (!$Session) {continue; }
        $Tasks = $Session.GetTaskSessions()
        $Tasks | Where-Object {$_.Name -eq $i} | ForEach-Object {Write-Host $_.Name ":" $_.Status}
    }
}

answered Feb 12, 2019 at 10:07

henrycarteruk

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