RVTOOLS Automation

[KarthikeyanRam1]

Hi All,

I need Powercli script to generate Rvtools report of multiple VCentre and automatically mail us as a single zip file. Please help me as we have 7 Vcentres and we are supporting multiple clients

Thanks a lot for you help in advance.

Thanks,

Karthikeyan Raman

[LucD]

Have a look at 1.  Re: Invoke multiple vcenters from rvtoolsbatch

[KarthikeyanRam1]

Hi LucD,

I have mutiple VC with different username and password. The passthrough will not work. Please help me to work rvtools script across all the VCentre.

I want to use the accounts saved by New-VICredentialStoreItem -Host "vCenter1" -User "domain\useracnt" -Password "password"

Thanks,

Karthikeyan Raman

[KarthikeyanRam1]

Hi Lucd,

I've configured the script according to my need and it works awesome.

I've used rvtools password encryption feature in 3.9.5 to protect my password as well

As rvtools report generation takes time and before the completion of rvtools report generation the sendsmtp got executed

Hence i introduced start -sleep 500 before the smtp code

Thanks

[IFSC SYSAD GIFT CITY]

Hi,

I ran the script and getting the following error: -

Error: Export failed! RVTools returned exitcode -1, probably a connection error! Script is stopped

Though connectivity from the server to the vcenter is working ok..
Can u pls let me know what I am missing...

[LucD]

Without seeing any code it is difficult to analyse your issue.

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[IFSC SYSAD GIFT CITY]

Please find below:-

# Save current directory
$SaveCurrentDir = (get-location).Path

# Set RVTools path
[string] $RVToolsPath = "C:\Program Files (x86)\Dell\RVTools"

# cd to RVTools directory
set-location $RVToolsPath

# -----------------------------------------------------
# Set parameters for vCenter 1 and start RVTools export
# -----------------------------------------------------
[string] $VCServer = "10.200.242.175"                                                    # my test vCenter server
[string] $User = "vsphere.local\administrator"                                                    

[string] $XlsxDir1 = "C:\Users\admin\Desktop\New folder"
[string] $XlsxFile1 = "vCenter1.xlsx"

# Start cli of RVTools
Write-Host "Start export for vCenter $VCServer" -ForegroundColor DarkYellow
$Arguments = "-u $User -p /***/ -s $VCServer -c ExportAll2xlsx -d $XlsxDir1 -f $XlsxFile1"

Write-Host $Arguments

$Process = Start-Process -FilePath ".\RVTools.exe" -ArgumentList $Arguments -NoNewWindow -Wait -PassThru

if($Process.ExitCode -eq -1)
{
    Write-Host "Error: Export failed! RVTools returned exitcode -1, probably a connection error! Script is stopped" -ForegroundColor Red
    exit 1
}

$OutputFile = "C:\Users\admin\Desktop\New folder\vCenter1.xlsx"

# Back to starting dir
Set-Location $SaveCurrentDir

[LucD]

Seems to work for me.
The only explanation I can think of is that the password is not correct.

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[mviel]

Hi @IFSC SYSAD GIFT CITY

Maybe it would be better to open a new Ticket and not add to a  content to a 7 Year old Ticket ,  my2Cent. 

As you didnt included  much info on the circumstances , there could be also a Bug hitting you . 

https://knowledge.broadcom.com/external/article/318142/export-data-failure-sorry-the-data-could.html