Series: PowerShell documenting

Documenting with Powershell: Documenting Hyper-V settings

Kelvin Tegelaar | 24 Feb, 2020 | 6 Mins Read

It’s been a couple of weeks since I’ve touched my Documenting with PowerShell series. I figured to get it started again we get going with Hyper-v. I use Hyper-v for nearly all our virtualized deployments. This script documents the following items:

  • The current Virtual Machines
  • The Virtual Machine network settings
  • The host network settings
  • The host settings
  • and the Virtual Replication settings

So this script has both been tested on a larger hyper-v cluster and a local hyper-v machine. We use this information if we ever need to do a rebuild or just check how the system is setup.

As always I’ve made two versions. One for IT-Glue, and one that generates a HTML file.

IT-Glue version

The IT-Glue version of the script uploads a new Flexible asset if it does not exist, and fills the data for you. If you don’t feel confident with leaving your API key in a script because your RMM cannot handle credentials that well, please check out this blog I wrote about the IT-Glue API.

########################## IT-Glue ############################
$APIKEy = "ITGLUEAPIKEY"
$APIEndpoint = "https://api.eu.itglue.com"
$FlexAssetName = "Hyper-v AutoDoc v2"
$OrgID = "YOURORGID"
$Description = "A network one-page document that displays the current Hyper-V Settings and virtual machines"
#some layout options, change if you want colours to be different or do not like the whitespace.
$TableHeader = "<table class=`"table table-bordered table-hover`" style=`"width:80%`">"
$Whitespace = "<br/>"
$TableStyling = "<th>", "<th style=`"background-color:#4CAF50`">"
########################## IT-Glue ############################
#Grabbing ITGlue Module and installing.
If (Get-Module -ListAvailable -Name "ITGlueAPI") {
    Import-module ITGlueAPI
}
Else {
    Install-Module ITGlueAPI -Force
    Import-Module ITGlueAPI
}
#Settings IT-Glue logon information
Add-ITGlueBaseURI -base_uri $APIEndpoint
Add-ITGlueAPIKey $APIKEy
write-host "Checking if Flexible Asset exists in IT-Glue." -foregroundColor green
$FilterID = (Get-ITGlueFlexibleAssetTypes -filter_name $FlexAssetName).data
if (!$FilterID) {
    write-host "Does not exist, creating new." -foregroundColor green
    $NewFlexAssetData =
    @{
        type          = 'flexible-asset-types'
        attributes    = @{
            name        = $FlexAssetName
            icon        = 'sitemap'
            description = $description
        }
        relationships = @{
            "flexible-asset-fields" = @{
                data = @(
                    @{
                        type       = "flexible_asset_fields"
                        attributes = @{
                            order           = 1
                            name            = "Host name"
                            kind            = "Text"
                            required        = $true
                            "show-in-list"  = $true
                            "use-for-title" = $true
                        }
                    },
                    @{
                        type       = "flexible_asset_fields"
                        attributes = @{
                            order          = 2
                            name           = "Virtual Machines"
                            kind           = "Textbox"
                            required       = $false
                            "show-in-list" = $false
                        }
                    },
                    @{
                        type       = "flexible_asset_fields"
                        attributes = @{
                            order          = 3
                            name           = "Network Settings"
                            kind           = "Textbox"
                            required       = $false
                            "show-in-list" = $false
                        }
                    },
                    @{
                        type       = "flexible_asset_fields"
                        attributes = @{
                            order          = 4
                            name           = "Replication Settings"
                            kind           = "Textbox"
                            required       = $false
                            "show-in-list" = $false
                        }
                    },
                    @{
                        type       = "flexible_asset_fields"
                        attributes = @{
                            order          = 5
                            name           = "Host Settings"
                            kind           = "Textbox"
                            required       = $false
                            "show-in-list" = $false
                        }
                    }
                )
            }
        }
    }
    New-ITGlueFlexibleAssetTypes -Data $NewFlexAssetData
    $FilterID = (Get-ITGlueFlexibleAssetTypes -filter_name $FlexAssetName).data
}

write-host "Start documentation process." -foregroundColor green

$VirtualMachines = get-vm | select-object VMName, Generation, Path, Automatic*, @{n = "Minimum(gb)"; e = { $_.memoryminimum / 1gb } }, @{n = "Maximum(gb)"; e = { $_.memorymaximum / 1gb } }, @{n = "Startup(gb)"; e = { $_.memorystartup / 1gb } }, @{n = "Currently Assigned(gb)"; e = { $_.memoryassigned / 1gb } }, ProcessorCount | ConvertTo-Html -Fragment | Out-String
$VirtualMachines = $TableHeader + ($VirtualMachines -replace $TableStyling) + $Whitespace
$NetworkSwitches = Get-VMSwitch | select-object name, switchtype, NetAdapterInterfaceDescription, AllowManagementOS | convertto-html -Fragment -PreContent "<h3>Network Switches</h3>" | Out-String
$VMNetworkSettings = Get-VMNetworkAdapter * | Select-Object Name, IsManagementOs, VMName, SwitchName, MacAddress, @{Name = 'IP'; Expression = { $_.IPaddresses -join "," } } | ConvertTo-Html -Fragment -PreContent "<br><h3>VM Network Settings</h3>" | Out-String
$NetworkSettings = $TableHeader + ($NetworkSwitches -replace $TableStyling) + ($VMNetworkSettings -replace $TableStyling) + $Whitespace
$ReplicationSettings = get-vmreplication | Select-Object VMName, State, Mode, FrequencySec, PrimaryServer, ReplicaServer, ReplicaPort, AuthType | convertto-html -Fragment | Out-String
$ReplicationSettings = $TableHeader + ($ReplicationSettings -replace $TableStyling) + $Whitespace
$HostSettings = get-vmhost | Select-Object Computername, LogicalProcessorCount, iovSupport, EnableEnhancedSessionMode,MacAddressMinimum, _max_, NumaspanningEnabled, VirtualHardDiskPath, VirtualMachinePath, UseAnyNetworkForMigration, VirtualMachineMigrationEnabled | convertto-html -Fragment -as List | Out-String

$FlexAssetBody =
@{
type = 'flexible-assets'
attributes = @{
traits = @{
'host-name' = $env:COMPUTERNAME
'virtual-machines' = $VirtualMachines
'network-settings' = $NetworkSettings
'replication-settings' = $ReplicationSettings
'host-settings' = $HostSettings
}
}
}

write-host "Documenting to IT-Glue" -ForegroundColor Green
$ExistingFlexAsset = (Get-ITGlueFlexibleAssets -filter_flexible_asset_type_id $($filterID.ID) -filter*organization_id $OrgID).data | Where-Object { $*.attributes.traits.'host-name' -eq $ENV:computername }
#If the Asset does not exist, we edit the body to be in the form of a new asset, if not, we just upload.
if (!$ExistingFlexAsset) {
$FlexAssetBody.attributes.add('organization-id', $OrgID)
    $FlexAssetBody.attributes.add('flexible-asset-type-id', $($filterID.ID))
write-host " Creating Hyper-v into IT-Glue organisation $OrgID" -ForegroundColor Green
New-ITGlueFlexibleAssets -data $FlexAssetBody
}
else {
write-host " Editing Hyper-v into IT-Glue organisation $OrgID" -ForegroundColor Green
$ExistingFlexAsset = $ExistingFlexAsset[-1]
Set-ITGlueFlexibleAssets -id $ExistingFlexAsset.id -data $FlexAssetBody
}

Generic HTML version

########################## IT-Glue ############################
$TableHeader = "<table class=`"table table-bordered table-hover`" style=`"width:80%`">"
$Whitespace = "<br/>"
$TableStyling = "<th>", "<th style=`"background-color:#4CAF50`">"
########################## IT-Glue ############################

write-host "Start documentation process." -foregroundColor green

$VirtualMachines = get-vm | select-object VMName, Generation, Path, Automatic*, @{n = "Minimum(gb)"; e = { $_.memoryminimum / 1gb } }, @{n = "Maximum(gb)"; e = { $_.memorymaximum / 1gb } }, @{n = "Startup(gb)"; e = { $_.memorystartup / 1gb } }, @{n = "Currently Assigned(gb)"; e = { $_.memoryassigned / 1gb } }, ProcessorCount | ConvertTo-Html -Fragment -PreContent "<h2>Virtual Machines</h2>" | Out-String
$VirtualMachines = $TableHeader + ($VirtualMachines -replace $TableStyling) + $Whitespace
$NetworkSwitches = Get-VMSwitch | select-object name, switchtype, NetAdapterInterfaceDescription, AllowManagementOS | convertto-html -Fragment -PreContent "<h2>Network Switches</h2>" | Out-String
$VMNetworkSettings = Get-VMNetworkAdapter * | Select-Object Name, IsManagementOs, VMName, SwitchName, MacAddress, @{Name = 'IP'; Expression = { $_.IPaddresses -join "," } } | ConvertTo-Html -Fragment -PreContent "<br><h2>VM Network Settings</h2>" | Out-String
$NetworkSettings = $TableHeader + ($NetworkSwitches -replace $TableStyling) + ($VMNetworkSettings -replace $TableStyling) + $Whitespace
$ReplicationSettings = get-vmreplication | Select-Object VMName, State, Mode, FrequencySec, PrimaryServer, ReplicaServer, ReplicaPort, AuthType | convertto-html -Fragment "<h2>Replication Settings</h2>"  | Out-String
$ReplicationSettings = $TableHeader + ($ReplicationSettings -replace $TableStyling) + $Whitespace
$HostSettings = get-vmhost | Select-Object  Computername, LogicalProcessorCount, iovSupport, EnableEnhancedSessionMode,MacAddressMinimum, *max*, NumaspanningEnabled, VirtualHardDiskPath, VirtualMachinePath, UseAnyNetworkForMigration, VirtualMachineMigrationEnabled | convertto-html -Fragment -PreContent "<h2>Host Settings</h2>"  | Out-String

$head = @"
<script>
function myFunction() {
    const filter = document.querySelector('#myInput').value.toUpperCase();
    const trs = document.querySelectorAll('table tr:not(.header)');
    trs.forEach(tr => tr.style.display = [...tr.children].find(td => td.innerHTML.toUpperCase().includes(filter)) ? '' : 'none');
  }</script>
<Title>Audit Log Report</Title>
<style>
body { background-color:#E5E4E2;
      font-family:Monospace;
      font-size:10pt; }
td, th { border:0px solid black;
        border-collapse:collapse;
        white-space:pre; }
th { color:white;
    background-color:black; }
table, tr, td, th {
     padding: 2px;
     margin: 0px;
     white-space:pre; }
tr:nth-child(odd) {background-color: lightgray}
table { width:95%;margin-left:5px; margin-bottom:20px; }
h2 {
font-family:Tahoma;
color:#6D7B8D;
}
.footer
{ color:green;
 margin-left:10px;
 font-family:Tahoma;
 font-size:8pt;
 font-style:italic;
}
#myInput {
  background-image: url('https://www.w3schools.com/css/searchicon.png'); /* Add a search icon to input */
  background-position: 10px 12px; /* Position the search icon */
  background-repeat: no-repeat; /* Do not repeat the icon image */
  width: 50%; /* Full-width */
  font-size: 16px; /* Increase font-size */
  padding: 12px 20px 12px 40px; /* Add some padding */
  border: 1px solid #ddd; /* Add a grey border */
  margin-bottom: 12px; /* Add some space below the input */
}
</style>
"@
$head,$VirtualMachines,$NetworkSettings,$ReplicationSettings,$HostSettings |  Out-File "C:\temp\Hyper-v.html"

And that’s it! As always, Happy PowerShelling.

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