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Learning PowerCLI

You're reading from   Learning PowerCLI A comprehensive guide on PowerCLI

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Product type Paperback
Published in Feb 2017
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ISBN-13 9781786468017
Length 562 pages
Edition 2nd Edition
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Preface 1. Introduction to PowerCLI FREE CHAPTER 2. Learning Basic PowerCLI Concepts 3. Working with Objects in PowerShell 4. Managing vSphere Hosts with PowerCLI 5. Managing Virtual Machines with PowerCLI 6. Managing Virtual Networks with PowerCLI 7. Managing Storage 8. Managing High Availability and Clustering 9. Managing vCenter Server 10. Patching ESXi Hosts and Upgrading Virtual Machines 11. Managing VMware vCloud Director and vCloud Air 12. Using Site Recovery Manager 13. Using vRealize Operations Manager 14. Using REST API to manage NSX and vRealize Automation 15. Reporting with PowerCLI

Retrieving statistic keys

A statistic key identifies a vRealize Operations Manager metric. The Get-OMStatKey cmdlet retrieves vRealize Operations Manager statistic keys. The syntax of the Get-OMStatKey cmdlet is given here. The first parameter set is the default:

Get-OMStatKey [[-Name] <String[]>] [-ResourceKind 
    <String[]>] [-AdapterKind <String[]>] [-Server <OMServer[]>] 
    [<CommonParameters>]

The second parameter set is required to retrieve statistic keys by resource:

Get-OMStatKey [[-Name] <String[]>] -Resource 
    <OMResource[]> [-Server <OMServer[]>] [<CommonParameters>]

The -Resource parameter is required.

The Get-OMStatKey cmdlet without parameters returns all of the statistic keys. There are too many statistic keys to shows in this book. Piping the output of the Get-OMStatKey cmdlet to the Measure-Object cmdlet and displaying the Count property shows us the number of statistic keys, as in the following command:

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