How to convert to HTML, help please!

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Hi,

i have a script doing some extraction to check if there is snapshot, and show the date created, age of days..

i need to convert it to html and email out. i ran the script and the email has totally white blank body.. not sure where is wrong / well, i am also not sure if i am doing it correctly..

p.s: i edited an existing script to my own though..

 

Get script path for later

$PSScriptRoot = $MyInvocation.MyCommand.Definition
$scriptinfo = “<br/><br/><font face=verdana size=-2>Script $PSScriptRoot running from $env:COMPUTERNAME</font>”
$ScriptCommonName = “VM Snapshot Check”
$timestamp = Get-Date -format dd-MM-yyyy
$MaintenanceCount = 0
$UnregisteredCount = 0

#Create HTML Header
$head = ‘<style>
META{http-equiv:refresh content:30;}
BODY{font-family:Verdana;}
TABLE{border-width: 1px;border-style: solid;border-color: black;border-collapse: collapse;}
TH{font-size:10px; border-width: 1px;padding: 6px;border-style: solid;border-color: black;background-color:LightSteelBlue}
TD{font-size:10px; border-width: 1px;padding: 6px;border-style: solid;border-color: black;background-color:GhostWhite}
</style>’

Assign email(s) to $sendto and SMTP server to $SMTPsrv

$sendto = “abc@xyz.co”
$SMTPsrv = “mail.server.com”
$subject = “[CHECKS] Virtual machine snapshot – $timestamp”

connecting to V-Center

$credential = get-vicredentialstoreitem -file E:\script\credentialstored.cred
set-powercliconfiguration -invalidcertificateaction ignore -confirm:$false
Connect-VIServer -Server $credential.host -user $credential.user -password $credential.password
write-host “Connected”
write-host “Checking VM Snapshot”
Get-VM | Get-Snapshot | select vm, name, created, @{Label=“Age”;Expression={($.created - [datetime]::Now).days}},@{Label=“Size”;Expression={[math]::Round($.SizeGB,2)}} | sort @{expression=“Age”} | format-table
Write-host “Complete” -Foregroundcolor Green

$messageParameters = @{
Subject = $subject
Body = $body + $scriptinfo
From = “scriptcheck@xyz.co”
To = $sendto
SmtpServer = “$SMTPsrv”
}

Send e-mail with Server load data

Send-MailMessage @messageParameters -BodyAsHtml

2

There is a book ‘Creating HTML Reports in Windows PowerShell’ by Don Jones, and you can refer it online…

https://leanpub.com/creatinghtmlreportsinwindowspowershell/read

Thank you.

3

Don’t forget to format the HTML. You can use OUT-GRIDVIEW to give yourself something to see, or you can get the module “OUT-HTMLVIEW”, which is basically the same thing but in an html file. Here is a snip of some HTML formatting stuff I use for some emailed reports. Obviously, you’ll not need most of this, but maybe it’ll help get you going. I keep this stuff in a global variables file and call it in the scripts using . sourcing.

$redColor = "#FF0000" 

$orangeColor = “#FBB917”


$whiteColor = “#FFF”


$tableBorderColor = “#999”


$titleBackgroundColor = “#B11B2F”


$titleFontColor = “#EEE”


$bodyBackgroundColor = “#FFF”


$rowColorOdd = “#EEE”


$rowColorEven = “#B0C8FE”


#Set warning and critical thresholds to trigger the above cell color changes, useful for some types of reports.


$percentWarning = 100;


$percentCritcal = 15;


$titleDate = get-date -uformat “Date %m-%d-%Y - %A”


#HTML Header of report, creates a nice big block with the report name and date, and some padding between the row cells.


$header = "


<!DOCTYPE html><head><title>$reportTitle$titleDate</title>


<STYLE TYPE=‘text/css’>


table{border-width:0px;width:100%;}

th, tr, td{font-family:Calibri;font-size:12px;text-align:left;vertical-align:middle;

border-style:solid;border-color:$tableBorderColor;border-width:1px;border-radius:3px 0px 3px 0px;padding:3px;}

tr:nth-child(odd){background-color:$rowColorOdd;}

tr:nth-child(even){background-color:$rowColorEven;}

body{margin:5px 5px 0px 10px;background-color:$bodyBackgroundColor;}

.tdtitle{background-color:$titleBackgroundColor;font-size:30px;font-weight:bold;text-align:left;vertical-align:middle;color:$titleFontColor;}



</style></head>


<body>

$reportTitle$titledate
"


$reportData | Sort-Object “Name” | ConvertTo-HTML -Head $header | Out-File $reportPath$reportName


Send-MailMessage -From $From -To $To -Subject “$reportTitle$(Get-Date -Format ‘D’)” -Body (Get-Content $reportPath$reportName | out-string ) -BodyAsHtml