Creating a system diagnostic report

The PLA subsystem that you have been working with in this chapter has an additional system-defined report known as the System Diagnostic Report. This report monitors a system for a period then provides a detailed report on the server.

Getting ready

You use the SRV1 server that you have used in other recipes in this chapter.

How to do it...

1. Start the built-in data collector on the local system, which generates the report:

   $PerfReportName="System\System Diagnostics"
   $DataSet = New-Object -ComObject Pla.DataCollectorSet
   $DataSet.Query($PerfReportName,$null)
   $DataSet.Start($true)

2. Output a message, then wait for the data collector to finish:

   "Sleeping for [$($Dataset.Duration)] seconds"
   Start-Sleep -Seconds $Dataset.Duration

3. Get the report and save it as HTML:

   $Dataset.Query($PerfReportName,$null)
   $PerfReport = $Dataset.LatestOutputLocation + "\Report.html"

4. View the report:

   & $PerfReport 

How it works...

In step 1, you create a DataCollectorSet object, which starts...