PowerShell parsing help
Dave Lum
Happy holidays y’all!
I have a PS command: Get-Counter
-Counter
"\ServerAApplication1(*)\Sessions Active"
That gives this output:
Timestamp CounterSamples
--------- --------------
12/24/2025 10:33:06 AM \\ServerAApplication1(instance1)\sessions active :
0
\\ServerAApplication1(instance2)\sessions active :
4
\\ServerAApplication1(instance3)\sessions active :
0
I can’t figure out how to operate the split command to get only the values after the “:”
All I care about is the session count, and when
- at least one of them isn’t zero, recheck in 30 seconds
- when all are at zero, do this thing
and it’s probably stupidly easy. The IF stuff I can figure out
Can someone help me out? Thanks!
Dave
Andrea 'ML' Suatoni
It's because CounterSamples is not the apparent multi-line string shown by the cmdlet output, but an array of objects. In fact, you shouldn't need to split anything, as the values you are after are already in their own fields.
The line below should help in better understanding what your are dealing with:
(Get-Counter -Counter "\ServerAApplication1(*)\Sessions Active").CounterSamples |fl *
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Dave Lum
I’ll be damned, THANK YOU SO MUCH! Bazinga.
CookedValue : 3
RawValue : 3
SecondValue : 0
MultipleCount : 1
CounterType : NumberOfItems32
Timestamp : 12/24/2025 2:40:01 PM
Timestamp100NSec : 134110608017480000
Status : 0
DefaultScale : 0
TimeBase : 10000000
Dave
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