Testing Syslog.global.auditRecord.storageEnable variable

[jeffj2000]

This is driving me crazy. I am not a PowerShell expert, so maybe this variable is a format i don't think it is. Can someone tell me why this value is not testing properly:

Get-VMHost -Name $FQDN| Get-AdvancedSetting -Name Syslog.global.auditRecord.storageEnable

Name                 Value                Type                 Description                   

----                 -----                ----                 -----------                   

Syslog.global.aud... False                VMHost          

$test= Get-VMHost -Name $FQDN| Get-AdvancedSetting -Name Syslog.global.auditRecord.storageEnable

$test.Value

False

 if($test.Value -eq "False") {write-host "asdf"} 

The above does not test "true"

What am i missing on that value type?

Thank you!

  

[jeffj2000]

I thought maybe a boolean but that doesn't seem to work.

[p0werShelldude]

Because $test.Value is of type Boolean, you will need to test for $true / 1 or $false / 0. You can always check this using the GetType() method; $test.Value.GetType()

if($test.Value -eq $false) or  if($test.Value -eq 0)

if($test.Value -eq $true) or  if($test.Value -eq 1)

[jeffj2000]

Thank you! This worked. I will click the recommend button on the thread.

[Mohamed Omar]

Dear , 

You're comparing a Boolean to a string.
$test.Value returns [bool] $false, not the string "False".
Use:

if ($test.Value -eq $false) { Write-Host "asdf" }

Or simply:

powershell



if (-not $test.Value) { Write-Host "asdf" } 

That should work.