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Report all VMware App Volumes Writable Volumes with Status Disabled and Orphaned

22 Apr

Often within the App Volumes Manager, there are Writable Volumes that will show up as Status “Orphaned” and essentially that can be caused by active directory user accounts that have been disabled in AD.

Writable Status = Orphaned

There is also a Status called “Disabled” and that can be caused when an App Volumes administrator decides to disable the Writable Volumes.

Writable Status = Disabled

Now if you have a enteprise environment with 1000’s of users, it’s hard to perform this activity from the UI. I have created a script that can report on the status of “Orphaned” and “Disabled” send you the output in *.csv report on a daily/weekly basis as per your needs.

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# Get List of Writable Volumes from AppVolumes Manager for Status Disabled and Orphaned
# Author - Aresh Sarkari (@askaresh)
# Version - V2.0
####################################################################

# Run at the start of each script to import the credentials
$Credentials = IMPORT-CLIXML "C:\Scripts\Secure-Creds\SCred_avmgr.xml"
$RESTAPIUser = $Credentials.UserName
$RESTAPIPassword = $Credentials.GetNetworkCredential().Password


$body = @{
    username = “$RESTAPIUser"
    password = “$RESTAPIPassword”
}

Invoke-RestMethod -SessionVariable DaLogin -Method Post -Uri "https://avolmanager.askaresh.com/cv_api/sessions” -Body $body

$output = Invoke-RestMethod -WebSession $DaLogin -Method Get -Uri "https://avolmanager.askaresh.com/cv_api/writables" -ContentType "application/json"

$output.datastores.writable_volumes | Select-Object owner_name, owner_upn, title, status | Where-Object {[string]$_.status -match "Orphaned" -and $_.title -match "(disabled)"} | Export-Csv -NoTypeInformation -Append D:\Aresh\Orphaned.Disabled-Writables.$(Get-Date -Format "yyyyMMddHHmm").csv

#send an email (provided the smtp server is reachable from where ever you are running this script)
$emailfrom = 'writablevolumes@askaresh.com'
$emailto = 'email1@askaresh.com', 'email2@askaresh.com'
$emailsub = 'Wrtiable Volumes with status Orphaned and Disabled - Weekly'
$emailbody = 'Attached CSV File from App Volumes Manager. The attachment included the API response for all the Writable which are orphaned and Disabled in UI'
$emailattach = "D:\Aresh\Orphaned.Disabled-Writables.$(Get-Date -Format "yyyyMMddHHmm").csv"
$emailsmtp = 'smtp.askaresh.com'

Send-MailMessage -From $emailfrom -To $emailto -Subject $emailsub -Body $emailbody -Attachments $emailattach -Priority High -DeliveryNotificationOption OnFailure -SmtpServer $emailsmtp

GitHub – https://github.com/askaresh/scripts/blob/master/wrtiable-orph-disa

Depending upon the output, you can have your service desk get in touch with the Active Directory teams to get the affected end-users to be removed from the App volumes writable volumes entitled groups and then proceed towards clean up of their writable volumes if there is no legal hold requirements.

I hope you will find this script useful to get a report for all writable volumes with status Orphaned and Disabled. My request if you further enhance the script or make it more creative, I hope you can share it back with me?

Thanks,
Aresh Sarkari

Report all VMware App Volumes Writable Volumes with low disk space

20 Apr

We have provided end-users with 30 GB Writable Volumes, and within the App Volumes Manager console there is an ability in the UI to see the Writable Volumes disk free under the view called – “Usage View”

Writable Volumes - Usage View
Writable Volumes – Usage View

The biggest challenge is if you have 1000’s of users, it’s hard to perform this activity from the UI. I have created a script that can send you the output in *.csv report on a daily/weekly basis as per your needs.

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# Get List of Wrtiable Volumes from AppVolumes Manager for free space less than 3 GB out of 30 GB
# Author - Aresh Sarkari (@askaresh)
# Version - V2.0
####################################################################


# Run at the start of each script to import the credentials
$Credentials = IMPORT-CLIXML "C:\Scripts\Secure-Creds\SCred_avmgr.xml"
$RESTAPIUser = $Credentials.UserName
$RESTAPIPassword = $Credentials.GetNetworkCredential().Password


$body = @{
    username = “$RESTAPIUser"
    password = “$RESTAPIPassword”
}

Invoke-RestMethod -SessionVariable DaLogin -Method Post -Uri "https://avolmanager.askaresh.com/cv_api/sessions” -Body $body

$output = Invoke-RestMethod -WebSession $DaLogin -Method Get -Uri "https://avolmanager.askaresh.com/cv_api/writables" -ContentType "application/json"

$output.datastores.writable_volumes | Select-Object owner_name, owner_upn,total_mb, free_mb, percent_available, status | Where-Object {$_.free_mb -lt 3072}  | Export-Csv -NoTypeInformation -Append D:\Aresh\Writableslt3gb.$(Get-Date -Format "yyyyMMddHHmm").csv

#send an email (provided the smtp server is reachable from where ever you are running this script)
$emailfrom = 'writablevolumes@askaresh.com'
$emailto = 'email1@askaresh.com', 'email2@askaresh.com' #Enter your SMTP Details
$emailsub = 'Wrtiable Volumes Size (free_mb) less than 3 GB out of 30 GB - 24 Hours'
$emailbody = 'Attached CSV File from App Volumes Manager. The attachment included the API response for all the Writable Volumes less than 3 GB of free space'
$emailattach = "D:\Aresh\Writableslt3gb.$(Get-Date -Format "yyyyMMddHHmm").csv"
$emailsmtp = 'smtp.askaresh.com'

Send-MailMessage -From $emailfrom -To $emailto -Subject $emailsub -Body $emailbody -Attachments $emailattach -Priority High -DeliveryNotificationOption OnFailure -SmtpServer $emailsmtp

GitHub – https://github.com/askaresh/scripts/blob/master/writablevolumesdiskusage

Depending upon the output, you can have your service desk get in touch with the affected end-users to clear-up disk space or provide options for further expansion.

I hope you will find this script useful to get a report for all writable volumes nearing their disk space usage. My request if you further enhance the script or make it more creative, I hope you can share it back with me?

Thanks,
Aresh Sarkari

Documenting Citrix XenApp 6.5 Inventory Assessment Script – Windows PowerShell

22 Oct

Imagine yourself in a situation where you have to capture the entire XenApp 6.5 Farm information to understand what the customers have in their environment. The traditional way to understand the environment is  to sit down multiple times with the CTX Architects/Admins to understand the details of infrastructure and even then missing on important details. This script will document whatever you see under the Citrix AppCenter Console and the output can be copied to a txt or word document.

My Testing results

I ran the script in my environment and generated the output as per the figures mentioned below. I am listing down certain requirements and things I learnt during the execution:

Step 1:

  • Download the Citrix XenApp 6.5 PowerShell SDK and simply go through the typical installation
  • Downloaded the Citrix XenApp Group Policies and place the files under two folders
    • C:\Windows\System32\WindowsPowerShell\v1.0\Modules, in a new folder named Citrix.GroupPolicy.Commands
    • C:\Windows\SysWOW64\WindowsPowerShell\v1.0\Modules, in a new folder named Citrix.GroupPolicy.Commands
  • Make sure you open the File Properties of Citrix.GroupPolicy.Commands.psm1 file and click on Unblock and click Apply and OK. If you don’t go through this step you will get an error during importing of module

Step2:

  • Open Windows PowerShell console and type Set-ExecutionPolicy RemoteSigned
  • Open Windows PowerShell screen and type import-module Citrix.GroupPolicy.Commands

Step3:

  • Download the script from Script and place the script under the C:\XAInventory folder
  • Click Start – All Programs – Citrix – XenApp 6.5 Server SDK – Windows PowerShell with Citrix XenApp 6.5 Server SDK
  • Navigate to C:\XAInventory folder and type .\XA65_Inventory.ps1 |out-file .\XA65Farm.txt
  • Copy the output from C:\XA65Farm\XA65Farm.txt to a Word Document for better reading and formatting.

Step4:

  • Analyze the customer environment with complete detailed information for the XenApp 6.5 infrastructure

Inventory Output Results:

XenApp Inventory Output

A lot more is captured with respect to Server, Zones, Applications etc. Check it out yourself to experience the in depth details

Source: (Thanks)
Lets give some respect and thanks to the author of this script Carl Webster because of whom we all will be saving none less than 30-40 hours of efforts in capturing details of the XenApp Environment. He has written a 13 page blog on what all information is captured in the inventory script. Note if you check out his blog there are scripts for multiple versions of XenApp 6.5/6/5

If you like this post please leave your valuable comments

Best Regards,
Aresh Sarkari