Today I took some time to check-in some of the code I’ve been working on lately on CodePlex. Since it’s been about 6 months since the last release, it’s pretty significant. Here are some of the highlights:
- Windows crash dumps analysis and automation (Get-CrashDump.ps1,Get-CrashDumpAnalysis,Get-CrashDumpAnalysisReport)
- Gathers crash dumps from all the computers present in Active Directory by default or from a list of computers in a text file and copies them to a central location (just noticed the path is hardcoded in the script, will fix this soon)
- Run cdb over the memory dumps gathered in an incremental fashion
- Extract core attributes from the cdb log files (i.e. module faulting, process name, etc.)
- Create a summary of the collected crash dump attributes and output it to a csv file (I’ll try to post the Excel workbook I use to analyze the output)
- libWindowsPerformance.psm1
- Get-PerformanceMonitoring : Capture perfmon counters from a list of computers and output to a file or to the PowerShell pipeline
- Filter-CounterValues : Filter perfmon counter samples from the PowerShell pipeline. This is useful to remove the samples that have little interest to you. In one case I used this to get only samples that exceeded 50% Processor time on 275 computers
- Convert-PerformanceCounterToHashTable: I mainly wrote this as an helper function for when I send the perfmon samples to Azure EventHub
- Store-PerformanceCounter : A function that persist counter samples from the pipeline to a SQL Server database
- Execute-CounterTrigger: This is a function I use to execute particular action on a particular counter sample. For instance, in the case where I was gather CPU perfmon samples, I executed a trigger to get the list of active processes when the threshold was met to get an idea of what is using CPU on the 275 computers
- Get-CounterStatistics: On an already collected perfmon log file, query it to get generic statistics (min, max, avg, total)
- Start-PerfmonOnComputers: An helper function to make sure the required services are running on remote computers to collect perfmon data
- libStorageSpaces.psm1
- Series of core helper function that I used while developing automated tests for Storage Spaces (mainly setup of pool, virtual disks)
- libSQLServerStatistics.psm1
- Added new functions to gather buffer pool composition (database and object level)
- Added functions to persist buffer pool composition over time
- Small change in Get-VHDHierarchy and Get-VMStorageInformation to use CredSSP (required when you have remote storage on SOFS for instance)
- libHyperVStatistics.psm1
- Add function to workaround a bug in resource metering where the metering duration is empty while collecting samples
- Now capturing individual VHD statistics appropriately
- Monitor-VMUsage.ps1
- Now capturing individual VHD statistics appropriately
- libConfiguration.psm1
- Added new functions to validate configuration files against the centralized configuration store
- libIIS.psm1
- New Get-RemoteWebSite function
- New Get-ImportedLogFiles function
- libUtilities
- Improved Assert-PSSession function
- New Test-FileLock function
- Initial release of libNetworking.psm1
- New Test-Port function which allows you to test TCP and UDP ports
- New Test-ComputerConnectivity function to test whether a computer is responding through various methods
- Initial release of libNeo4j.psm1
- Core functions to manipulate and query data in a Neo4j graph database
- This is used for a POC of a discovery process written in PowerShell that creates a graph in Neo4j that is used as a CMDB.
You can download the latest release here: GEM Automation 3.0.0.0
Here are some of my goals for future releases:
- Improve documentation (both in PowerShell and on CodePlex)
- Publish CMDB discovery processes that persist data in Neo4j
- Ensure the code is using the standard configuration store
In the meantime, try to enjoy this minimally documented release! If you have questions about the code, feel free to ask via the comments below.
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