Check status of a VSS Writer

nadnerB

G'day Lads and Lasses,

I'm attempting, key word there, to write a Powershell script that checks the state of the Exchange Information Store VSS Writer and emails me if it's in a failed state.

I've cobbled together (think Frankenstein) a bunch of code that checks the state of the specified writer and is supposed to send an email if . However, I'd like to try to extend it.

I 'borrowed' this line from a site to day to display if the Microsoft Exchange Writer is in a state other than no error (it displays the name of the specified writer. Not overly useful as is):

$Checkup = vssadmin list writers | Select-String -Context 0,4 'Writer_Name' | ? {$_.Context.PostContext[2].Trim() -ne "last error: no error"} | Select Line | % {$_.Line.tostring().Split("'")[1]}

Example Result

Writer name: 'WMI Writer'
Writer Id: {numb-ers-and-lett-ers}
Writer Instance Id: {numb-ers-and-lett-ers}
State: [1] Stable
Last error: No error

How do I get it to pull out the following?

writer name
State
Last Error

nadnerB

No takers, eh?

JaredBusch

I did not even see the post somehow. I can try and look at it later.