Re: Powershell/PowerCLI Dynamic Email Message Body with Datastores

Hmm,  this is what I have:

clear-host

$vcserver = "vcenter"

$mailto = "Me"

$SMTPServer = "exchange"

$msg = new-object Net.Mail.MailMessage

Function Report-Datastore {

    $output = @()

    Get-Datastore | % {

        $props = [ordered]@{'Name'=$_.Name;

                            'UsedSpace'=[math]::Round(($_.CapacityGB - $_.FreeSpaceGB),2);

                            'PercFree'=[math]::Round((100 * ($_.FreeSpaceGB/$_.CapacityGB)),0)}

        $output += New-Object -TypeName PSCUstomObject -Property $props

    }

$output

}

$msg.Subject = "vCenter Datastore Health CompanyvCenter"

Connect-VIServer $vcserver

$html_DS = Report-Datastore |

           Sort-Object PercFree |

           ConvertTo-HTML -Fragment |

           Out-String

$html_DS = "<h2>Datastores</h2>$html_DS"

$params = @{'Head'="<title>vCenter Datastore Health CompanyvCenter</title>";

            'PreContent'="<h1>Datastore HealthCheck CompanyvCenter</h1>";

            'PostContent'=$html_DS}

$msg.Body = ConvertTo-HTML @params

#$msg.Attachments.Add($att1)

$msg.IsBodyHTML = $true

$smtp.Send($msg)

#$att1.Dispose()

Disconnect-VIServer $vcserver -Confirm:$false

Got the following error:

You cannot call a method on a null-valued expression.

At C:\scripts\VMware\DatastoreCheck.ps1:31 char:1

+ $smtp.Send($msg)

+ ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

    + CategoryInfo          : InvalidOperation: (:) [], RuntimeException

    + FullyQualifiedErrorId : InvokeMethodOnNull