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RaymondJ
4 years ago

DataSource creation for Physical Host name in Hyper-V/Windows Environment

Hello, Im looking for some guidance in how best to create a Datasource that will provide the Physical Hostname of a Windows VM (will worry about Linux later). I have the following two Powershell qu...
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RaymondJ
4 years ago

Alright I moved this over to PropertySource, and for now I am using the Remote Registry method: 

$ComputerName = hostname

# Remote Reqistry

$HyperVHost = ([Microsoft.Win32.RegistryKey]::OpenRemoteBaseKey('LocalMachine',$ComputerName)).OpenSubKey('SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Virtual Machine\Guest\Parameters').GetValue('PhysicalHostName')

Write-Host "auto.lmi.PhysicalHost=$(${HyperVHost})"

Exit 0

 

This is returning what I would expect. Thanks for the help!