As Built Report

A collection of PowerShell scripts to generate as built reports on the configuration of datacentre infrastucture in Text, XML, HTML & MS Word formats.

Getting Started

Below is a simple list of instructions on how to use these scripts.

Pre-requisites

All scripts within this repository require PScribo. See below for installation instructions.

Other PowerShell modules and PSSnapins will be required in order to execute scripts and generate reports. The pre-requisites for each report will be documented within its README.md.

Installing PScribo

PScribo can be installed via two methods;

• Automatically via PowerShell Gallery;

  Install-Module PScribo

• Manually by downloading the GitHub package

  • Download and unblock the latest .zip file.

  • Extract the .zip into your $PSModulePath, e.g. ~\Documents\WindowsPowerShell\Modules. Ensure the extracted folder is named 'PScribo'.

    Import-Module PScribo

Using As Built Report

Each report script utilises a common set of script parameters. Some report scripts will use additional parameters. Additional report script parameters and relevant examples will be shown in the report's README.md.

PARAMETER Target

Specifies the IP/FQDN of the target system.
This parameter is mandatory.

PARAMETER Username

Specifies the username of the target system.

PARAMETER Password

Specifies the password of the target system.

PARAMETER Credentials

Specifies the credentials of the target system.

PARAMETER Type

Specifies the type of report that will generated.
Type paramater must match the report filename in the \Reports\<ReportType> folder.
This parameter is mandatory.

PARAMETER Format

Specifies the output format of the report.
This parameter is mandatory.
The supported output formats are WORD, HTML, XML & TEXT.
Multiple output formats may be specified, separated by a comma.
By default, the output format will be set to WORD.

PARAMETER StyleName

Specifies a custom document style to be used for the report.
The style name must match the filename in the \Styles folder.
This parameter is optional and does not have a default value.

PARAMETER Path

Specifies the path to save the report.
This parameter is optional. If not specified the report will be saved in the script folder.

PARAMETER AsBuiltConfigPath

Specifies the path to the As Built report configuration file.
This parameter is optional. If not specified the script will prompt the user to provide the configuration information.

PARAMETER Timestamp

Specifies whether to append a timestamp string to the report filename.
This parameter is optional. 
By default, the timestamp string is not added to the report filename.

PARAMETER Healthchecks

Highlights certain issues within the system report.
Some reports may not provide this functionality.
This parameter is optional.

PARAMETER SendEmail

Sends report to specified recipients as email attachments.
This parameter is optional.

Examples

• Create a VMware vSphere As Built Report in HTML format. Append timestamp to the filename. Highlight configuration issues within the report. Save report to specified path.

  .\New-AsBuiltReport.ps1 -Target 192.168.1.10 -Username admin -Password admin -Type vSphere -Format Html -Timestamp -Path 'C:\Users\Tim\Documents' -Healthchecks

• Create a Pure Storage FlashArray As Built Report in Word & Text formats. Create a report for multiple FlashArrays. Report is saved to script folder.

  .\New-AsBuiltReport.ps1 -Target '192.168.1.100,192.168.1.110' -Username pureuser -Password pureuser -Type FlashArray -Format Word,Text

• Create a Nutanix As Built Report in Word & HTML formats. Send reports via email.

  .\New-AsBuiltReport.ps1 -Target '192.168.1.100,192.168.1.110' -Username admin -Password admin -Type Nutanix -Format Word,Html -SendEmail

Reports

VMware vSphere As Built Report

• Information relating to the VMware vSphere As Built Report can be found in the report's README.md

Release Notes

0.2.0

What's New

• New As Built JSON configuration structure
  • new AsBuiltConfigPath parameter
  • allows unique configuration files to be created and saved
  • if AsBuiltConfigPath parameter is not specified, user is prompted for As Built report configuration information
  • New-AsBuiltConfig.ps1 & Config.json files are no longer required

All Releases

Known Issues

• Table Of Contents (TOC) may be missing in Word formatted report

  When opening the DOC report, MS Word prompts the following

  "This document contains fields that may refer to other files. Do you want to update the fields in this document?"

  Yes / No

  Clicking No will prevent the TOC fields being updated and leaving the TOC empty.

  Always reply Yes to this message when prompted by MS Word.

• In HTML documents, word-wrap of table cell contents is not working, causing the following issues;

  • Cell contents may overflow table columns
  • Tables may overflow page margin
  • PScribo Issue #83

• In Word documents, some tables are not sized proportionately. To prevent cell overflow issues in HTML documents, most tables are auto-sized, this causes some tables to be out of proportion.

  • PScribo Issue #83