Progress

If Connect-PrtgServer is executed outside of a script or the PowerShell ISE, PrtgAPI will by default display advanced progress details whenever two cmdlets are chained together. PrtgAPI dynamically updates the progress hierarchy based on number and type of cmdlets being executed. Progress is displayed when two or more PrtgAPI cmdlets are piped together, or when a variable containing two or more PrtgAPI objects is piped into a PrtgAPI cmdlet.

# PRTG Group Search
#     Processing group 1/1
#     [oooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo] (100%)

Get-Group -Count 1 | Get-Device

# PRTG Group Search
#     Processing group 1/1
#     [oooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo] (100%)

#     PRTG Device Search
#         Processing device 1/1
#         [oooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo] (100%)
#         Retrieving all sensors

Get-Group -Count 1 | Get-Device | Get-Sensor

With the exception of the Where-Object cmdlet and certain parameter combinations of Select-Object, if PrtgAPI detects that a third party cmdlet (such as Foreach-Object) is sitting between two PrtgAPI cmdlets, progress from all cmdlets to the right of of this third party cmdlet will not attempt to display progress. If a script block is used in conjunction with a cmdlet in a PrtgAPI pipeline (such as Where-Object) containing further PrtgAPI cmdlets, a second hierarchy of progress will be created separate from the first.

If you do not wish to display PrtgAPI Progress, this can be overridden by either setting the $ProgressPreference within PowerShell, specifying the -Progress parameter with Connect-PrtgServer, updating the progress with Set-PrtgClient or by using the Enable-PrtgProgress and Disable-PrtgProgress cmdlets respectively.

Connect-PrtgServer prtg.example.com -Progress:$false

Set-PrtgClient -Progress

Enable-PrtgProgress