Upgrade tools based on a CSV File

[mythrandir52]

Basically I have defined outage windows for various servers. These windows are record in my SMS enviroment as it uses them to push patches to the servers during the windows. I have a script that dumps the contents of each windows collection in SMS to .CSV files. I would like to run a routine that would do a tools upgrade on the guest during it window as well. I am having no luck with the code at the moment. I am a good vbscripter but very new to power shell and I need some help.

Get-VC Vcenter | Impot-CSV c:\serverlist1.csv| Get-VM| Update-Tools

Sample of serverlist1.csv

Name

server1

Server2

server3

Basically Get-VM keeps comming back saying it cant use the piped information

[admin]

Basically I have defined outage windows for various servers. These windows are record in my SMS enviroment as it uses them to push patches to the servers during the windows. I have a script that dumps the contents of each windows collection in SMS to .CSV files. I would like to run a routine that would do a tools upgrade on the guest during it window as well. I am having no luck with the code at the moment. I am a good vbscripter but very new to power shell and I need some help.

Get-VC Vcenter | Impot-CSV c:\serverlist1.csv| Get-VM| Update-Tools

Sample of serverlist1.csv

Name

server1

Server2

server3

Basically Get-VM keeps comming back saying it cant use the piped information

Hi,

First is that we recommend using Connect-VIServer rather than Get-VC, also it should be on its own line.

Import-CSV will return a list. You can pipe this into a foreach loop like this:

connect-viserver YOURSERVER
import-csv YOURFILE | foreach {
   Get-VM $_.Name | Update-Tools
}

This assumes that your CSV file has a column called Name that specifies the VM's name.