{"id":621,"date":"2010-02-19T13:53:07","date_gmt":"2010-02-19T18:53:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.jasemccarty.com\/blog\/?p=621"},"modified":"2010-02-19T13:53:07","modified_gmt":"2010-02-19T18:53:07","slug":"powercli-script-with-voice","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.jasemccarty.com\/blog\/powercli-script-with-voice\/","title":{"rendered":"PowerCLI Script – With Voice"},"content":{"rendered":"

I was looking at some tweets, and noticed one from @ScriptingGuys<\/a><\/strong> about how to add voice to a PowerShell script.\u00a0 Here is the actual tweet: http:\/\/twitter.com\/ScriptingGuys\/statuses\/9343448757<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n

Here’s the syntax in an example:
\n(New-Object -ComObject sapi.spvoice).speak(“Greetings Professor Falken”)
\n<\/span><\/span>(New-Object -ComObject sapi.spvoice).speak(“Shall we play a game”)<\/span><\/p>\n

So I took one of my PowerShell scripts, and modified it.\u00a0 I chose my PowerCLI: NFS Settings for vSphere (NetApp NFS Recommendations)<\/a><\/strong> script, because it is a short script, and it was easy to update.<\/p>\n

\n#***************************************************************************\n#\n# Update TCP and NFS Advanced Configuration Settings for vSphere w\/Voice\n# Author: Jase McCarty\n# Date: 2\/19\/2010\n#\n#***************************************************************************\n\n<span style="color: #0000ff;">(New-Object -ComObject sapi.spvoice).speak("What is the ESX Host Name or IP Address")<\/span>\n$ESXHOST = Read-Host \u201cEnter ESX Host Name or IP\u201d\nConnect-VIServer $ESXHOST\n\n<span style="color: #0000ff;"> (New-Object -ComObject sapi.spvoice).speak("Now updating TCP and NFS Advanced Configuration Settings on host " + $ESXHOST)<\/span>\nWrite-Host \u201cUpdating TCP and NFS Advanced Configuration Settings on host \u201d + $ESXHOST\n\n# Update TCP Settings\nSet-VMHostAdvancedConfiguration -VMHost $ESXHOST -Name Net.TcpipHeapSize  -Value 30\nSet-VMHostAdvancedConfiguration -VMHost $ESXHOST -Name Net.TcpipHeapMax  -Value 120\n\n# Update NFS Settings (For ESX 3.5, MaxVolumes should be 32)\nSet-VMHostAdvancedConfiguration -VMHost $ESXHOST -Name NFS.MaxVolumes  -Value 64\nSet-VMHostAdvancedConfiguration -VMHost $ESXHOST -Name  NFS.HeartbeatMaxFailures -Value 10\nSet-VMHostAdvancedConfiguration -VMHost $ESXHOST -Name  NFS.HeartbeatFrequency -Value 12\nSet-VMHostAdvancedConfiguration -VMHost $ESXHOST -Name  NFS.HeartbeatTimeout -Value 5\n\n(New-Object -ComObject sapi.spvoice).speak("NetApp Settings Complete")\n<\/pre>\n
Pretty cool addition.\u00a0 A good use of this, (as well as text prompts) would be when running commands against vCenter, “vocally” indicating changes to objects (hosts, clusters, guests, etc) as they are being modified.<\/p>\n
This might be a little much, but when running a script against many objects, it would not require having to watch the screen for output while the script is running.\u00a0 Attention could then be focused on other things.<\/p>\n
I don’t know if anyone is going to use this little addition, as it does take extra code.\u00a0 Administrators who approach scripts like I do (with many status messages and the like) might find this as a cool addition.<\/p>\n
Figured I’d share.<\/p>\n
$NVPG = Get-VMHost $ESXHOST | Get-VirtualSwitch -Name “vSwitch0” | New-VirtualPortGroup -Name “VLAN100” -VLanId “100”;<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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