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Simon D Richards

Posted Tuesday, February 19, 2013 7:57 AM

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Hi, I am running a script to collect a count of all errors in the current error log using smo, as below:

$sqlServer = new-object ("Microsoft.SqlServer.Management.Smo.Server") "MYSERVER"
$logs = $sqlServer.ReadErrorLog() | where {($_.Text -like "Error*" -or $_.Text -like "*Fail*") -and ($_.Text -notlike "*Found 0 Errors*")};
$count = $logs.Count
$count

and then dumping this into a monitor database.

This works fine for most servers, but I have a 2005 cluster that for some reason won't return the count. If I just read the error log into console that works fine, but the .Count method disappears completely from the object. It is like, for this server, the object returned from $sqlServer.ReadErrorLog() is different to the rest of the servers.

Any ideas?

Thanks for reading.

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Simon D Richards

Posted Tuesday, February 19, 2013 8:25 AM

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I think I may have answered my own question.

It appears that the ReadErrorLog function is returning it's own error, rather than a collection of errors from the server log, which is where my confusion lay. As it is a single error, there is no collection / count for it. This happens when it connects okay to the server to return an smo object, but the function call returns an authentication error.

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