PowerCLI

Hi everyone,

I have a shutdown script for my virtual infrastructure, now I have to add some code to shutdown an Equallogic array AFTER the last host is powered off.

I know the commands for doing that but i need some help in writing the loop that will test the management ip of the last host and wait until this stop responding to pings.

In my script i establish what host will be powered off for last so this is not a problem... how can i keep pinging the host management IP until it dies and then run the Equallogic commands?

I hope I managed to explain myself... i was exploring the Test-Connection CmdLet but it seems like it outputs che echo of the ping instead of the status... i got a little lost around this, anyone can help me please?

While i think i found a way around my problem then another one arises... but let's start from my solution:

DO {

  write-host "$(get-date -f HH:mm:ss) $(get-date -f dd/MM/yyyy) - Host is online"

  sleep 5

  } While (Test-Connection 192.168.110.85 -BufferSize 16 -Count 1 -Quiet)

Write-Host "$(get-date -f HH:mm:ss) $(get-date -f dd/MM/yyyy) - Host is offline"

It works, the problem is that this loop might never exit because if for some reason the host never powers down this script will run forever.

I was thinking to try to execute this for a number of times and then exit anyway but i dont' know how to do this.

Suggestions?

Would something like this do the trick ?

I'm sorry but it doesn't seem to work for me.

It keeps pinging forever and never seems like getting out of the loop.

I think the 1st part of the condition should be negated (I added the -not, alias is !) to the 1st condition.

Try like that

In this way it just does one ping and then exit the loop, no matter what i set for $maxWait

My mistake, the while should have been an until

That's right, I shuold have seen that too.

Thanks, works exactly as I need it. Kudos!