Powershell Tip: Formatting trick to make your search criteria stand out


	Powershell Tip: Formatting trick to make your search criteria stand out

fuzzylogic181

3-24-2008 7:54 PM

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Output format tip for Powershell

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	</blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.systemcenterforum.org/powershell-tip-formatting-trick-to-make-your-search-criteria-stand-out/"><P>This is quite easily done with a <STRONG>foreach </STRONG>loop and the Powershell equivalent of the if-then statement to change the color of the text based on the value of the <STRONG>ProxyEnabled </STRONG>status for each agent. In this case, if ProxyEnabled = false, text output will be <FONT color="#ff0000"><STRONG>RED</STRONG></FONT>. If ProxyEnabled = true, text output will be <FONT color="#008000"><STRONG>GREEN. </STRONG><FONT color="#000000">I have commented the sample script below to clarify the meaning of each statement.</FONT></FONT></P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.systemcenterforum.org/powershell-tip-formatting-trick-to-make-your-search-criteria-stand-out/"><P><EM> <FONT color="#0000ff">#Retrieve all agents and assign to a variable</FONT></EM><FONT color="#0000ff">
$agents = get-agent
</FONT></P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.systemcenterforum.org/powershell-tip-formatting-trick-to-make-your-search-criteria-stand-out/"><P><FONT color="#0000ff"><EM> #For each agent in the $agents variable, execute the IF statement</EM>
foreach ($agent in $agents){</FONT></P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.systemcenterforum.org/powershell-tip-formatting-trick-to-make-your-search-criteria-stand-out/"><FONT color="#0000ff"><EM>#If ProxyEnabled = TRUE, write agent Name and ProxyEnabled status to the console in RED.</EM>
If ($agent.ProxyingEnabled -match $true) {write-host $agent.name, $agent.proxyingenabled -foregroundcolor “red”}</FONT></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.systemcenterforum.org/powershell-tip-formatting-trick-to-make-your-search-criteria-stand-out/"><P><FONT color="#0000ff">else</FONT></P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.systemcenterforum.org/powershell-tip-formatting-trick-to-make-your-search-criteria-stand-out/"><P><FONT color="#0000ff"><EM>#If ProxyEnabled = FALSE write agent Name and ProxyEnabled status to the console in GREEN.</EM>
{write-host $agent.name, $agent.proxyingenabled -foregroundcolor “darkgreen”}
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