Hi

I am just starting out with Powershell and although have managed to write my 1st script to do what I want I am having trouble outputting to Gridview.

It checks the presence of certain services on various servers from a txt file and then if they are not running starts them.

Ideally I would like to get the output to a gridview but so far all my attempts are giving me a seperate gridview window for each service each time it loops through the script.

Any ideas or pointers to where I sould be adding | out-gridview or any extra commands I am missing to get a list of computer names and status of the services in the 1 window. 

If that is not possible getting the output to an XML file would be great but also have been unable to get that to work.  It just keeps on coming up blank.

Thanks in advance

# Setup trap to catch exceptions
trap [Exception]
{
	write-error $("TRAPPED: " + $_.Exception.Message); 
}

$logfile = "d:\citrixout.log"

cls

# read computers from text file
$computers = Get-Content D:\Computers.txt;
$start = $True;

#Services to check
$serviceArray = 'CitrixXTEServer', 'CitrixWMIService', 'Citrix 64-bit Virtual Memory Optimization', 'Citrix Encryption Service', 'Citrix Encryption Service', 'Citrix SMA Service', 'Citrix Virtual Memory Optimization', 'CitrixHealthMon', 'IMAService';


foreach($computer in $computers)
{
	Write-Host "Checking $computer"-foregroundcolor Black -backgroundcolor Blue | Out-File $logfile -Append -noclobber;
	$objWMIService = Get-WmiObject -Class win32_service -computer $computer
	
	foreach($service in $objWMIService)
	{	
		# Check each service specicfied in the $serviceArray
		foreach($srv in $serviceArray)
		{
			if($service.name -eq $srv)
			{
					Write-Host $testing "$srv is present on $computer." -foregroundcolor Green;
						if($service.state -eq "running") 
				 					
								
				{
					Write-Host "$srv is running on $computer" -foregroundcolor Green;
				}
				else
				{
					Write-Host "$srv is not running on $computer" -foregroundcolor yellow;
					# If $start is true the script will attempt to start the service if it is stopped
					if($start -eq $true)
					{
						# Attempt to start the current service on the current computer
						$serviceInstance = (Get-WmiObject -computer $computer Win32_Service -Filter "Name='$srv'");
						$name = $serviceInstance.Name;
						Write-Host "Attempting to start $name  on $computer." -foregroundcolor red
						$serviceInstance.StartService() | Out-Null;
						# Refresh the object instance so we get new data
						$serviceInstance = (Get-WmiObject -computer $computer Win32_Service -Filter "Name='$srv'");
						$state = $serviceInstance.State;
						Write-Host "$name is ""$state"" on  $computer." -foregroundcolor Cyan;		
					}
				}
			}
		}
	}
}

I'm assuming that you're only interested in the services that are declared in array. If so, try this, you just need to edit the last line to output an XML file:

trap [Exception]
{
 Write-Error -Message ("TRAPPED: " + $_.Exception.Message)
}

$logfile = "D:\citrixout.log"

Clear-Host

$computers = Get-Content -Path "D:\Computers.txt"
$start = $true

$outputServices = @()

$serviceNames = @(
    'CitrixXTEServer',
    'CitrixWMIService',
    'Citrix 64-bit Virtual Memory Optimization',
    'Citrix Encryption Service',
    'Citrix Encryption Service',
    'Citrix SMA Service',
    'Citrix Virtual Memory Optimization',
    'CitrixHealthMon',
    'IMAService'
)

foreach ($computer in $computers)
{
 Write-Host "Checking $computer" -ForegroundColor Black -BackgroundColor Blue | Out-File -FilePath $logfile -Append -NoClobber
 $allServices = Get-Service -ComputerName $computer
 
 foreach ($service in $allServices)
 {
  foreach ($serviceName in $serviceNames)
  {
   if ($service.Name -eq $serviceName)
   {
    Write-Host $testing "$serviceName is present on $computer." -ForegroundColor Green
               
    if ($service.State -eq "Running")
    {
     Write-Host "$serviceName is running on $computer" -ForegroundColor Green
    }
    else
    {
     Write-Host "$serviceName is not running on $computer" -ForegroundColor Yellow
                   
     if ($start -eq $true)
     {
                        Write-Host "Attempting to start $serviceName on $computer." -ForegroundColor Red
                        Start-Service -Name $serviceName
                        $s = Get-Service -Name $serviceName
      Write-Host '$($s.Name) is "$($s.State)" on $computer.' -ForegroundColor Cyan
     }
    }
               
                $outputServices += Get-Service -Name $serviceName
   }
  }
 }
}

$outputServices | Out-GridView
(ConvertTo-XML -InputObject $outputServices -As Document).Save("Your_File_Name.xml")