I am trying to use Invoke-VMScript to set new IP's on a list of servers. The only access that I have to these servers is through vCenter console, so I thought this would be easier, faster, and less prone to errors. The problem is that I have to determine which nic to change the IP's on, based on the current IP, and I need to pass the new IP's into the Invoke-VMScript because they are going to be different for every server on the list.
Invoke-VMScript -vm $vmname -guestUser 'dom\me\ -guestpassword '@ttt1234' -scripttype powershell -scripttext {
$adapters = Get-wmiObjet win32_networkadapterconfiguration
foreach ( $adapter in $adapters ) {
if ($adpaters.ipaddress -match "$cIpaddress" ) {
$adapter.EnableStatic("$nIPaddress", "$nSubnet")
$adapter.SetGateways("$nGateway",1)
$adapter.SetDNSSErversearchorder($aDNS)
}#end if
}#end fe
}#end scriptblock
obviously all of these variable are populated earlier in the script, but they are not making it into the VM.
I seem to need a way to populate the variable into a text, then put the text into the -scripttext.
I thougth of writing it to a temp file and then using get-content to bring it all back as a string and placing it in -scripttext.
Any good ideas?