Monitoring Server login status

Sure.. that's relatively easy with powershell.
1st upgrade to powershell v3 (minimum)

add-pssnapin -name Citrix* -erroraction silentlycontinue

$ServerStatus = get-xaserver | select-object -property ServerName,LogonsEnabled

$SMTPTo = 'name@domain.tld'
$SMTPFrom = 'DisabledServers@domain.tld'
$SMTPSubject = "Disabled Server List on $(get-date)"
$SMTPBody = "Current server status as of $(get-date)\r\n$ServerStatus"
$SMTPServer = 'mailserver@domain.tld'
$SMTPPort = 25

Send-MailMessage -To $SMTPTo -From $SMTPFrom -Subject $SMTPSubject -Body $SMTPBody -port $SMTPPort

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Then just schedule the task to run every morning.

You could even add a line to re-enable the logons:

get-xaserver | where-object { $_.LogonsEnabled -eq 'Disabled' | $_.LogonsEnabled = 'Enabled' }

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Coralon

This sounds great, but I am not sure how to customize it for my info?

Can you help?

Lets say I have two three servers and their names are:
XenApp65-XA01, XenApp65-XA02, XenApp65-XA03

How do I enter them?

I tried:

$ServerStatus = get-XenApp65-XA01| select-object -property ServerName,LogonsEnabled

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but that causes power shell to error with:

get-XenApp65-XA01 : The term 'get-XenApp65-XA01' is not recognized as the name of a cmdlet, function, script file, or
operable program. Check the spelling of the name, or if a path was included, verify that the path is correct and try
again.

Also, we use Exchange for Mail, am I just entering the mail server name here:

$SMTPServer = 'mailserver@domain.tld'

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Thanks

with PS command "get-xaserver" you get a list of all XenApp Servers and their configuration.
(try it directly within PS)

but with the script i get the server-names but without Logon-state.

Not sure what I am doing wrong

You need to add the citrix snapin first

add-pssnapin -name citrix*

Coralon

Almost there....  I can get the results of the servers in the powershell window, now I just need to get the email to send.  The script keeps telling me that no smtp server is entered, but I have entered the info for our exchange server, which is also what we have entered for the smtp values in our local scan-to-email devices, so I know it is correct.  WHat am I missing?
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I am using 2.0
I modified the script as shown in screen 1.  I get the email now, but the body just says:
"Current server status as of 06/23/2015 18:03:34\r\n "  and that is is...

I cant get the server statuses to show in the body of the email?

If I run

get-xaserver | select-object -property ServerName,LogonsEnabled

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in powershell, it DOES show them in the powershell window....

What do I need to modify to get them into the email body?

Thanks
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Thanks

In your .net command all you do is set the smtp body switch to powershell command..

Taking the example from article..

$EmailFrom = "test@cscncoc.com"
$EmailTo = "bjackson@csncoc.com"
$Subject = "Test mail Subject"
$Body = Get-XAServer | select-object -property ServerName,LogonsEnabled | format-table
$SMTPServer = "AFSBS2K11"
$SMTPClient = New-Object Net.Mail.SmtpClient($SmtpServer, 25)
$SMTPClient.Send($EmailFrom, $EmailTo, $Subject, $Body)

Coralon