Email CollectOverMetrics.ps1 HTML Report

Question

Exchange 2013 SP1 with 2 member DAG with 1 DB. I want to monitor the DAG using collectovermetrics.ps1. I want to have the html report from collectovermetrics.ps1 email to administrators. I know I have to have task scheduler run the command:
CollectOverMetrics.ps1 -DatabaseAvailabilityGroup DAG1 -StartTime "06/15/2012" -EndTime "06/16/2012" -GenerateHTMLReport –ShowHTMLReport
But how do I have that report emailed? I know you can use:
Send-MailMessage -To [email protected] -From [email protected] -subject "This is a test" -Credential (Get-Credential)
But this fails with:
send-mailmessage : The email cannot be sent because no SMTP server was specified. You must specify an SMTP s
using either the SmtpServer parameter or the $PSEmailServer variable.
At line:1 char:1
+ send-mailmessage -to [email protected] -from [email protected]
+ ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
+ CategoryInfo : InvalidArgument: (:) [Send-MailMessage], InvalidOperationException
+ FullyQualifiedErrorId : Microsoft.PowerShell.Commands.SendMailMessage
Can anyone help with this?

Answer 1

We don't know what's going on when you run Scheduled Tasks with this cmdlet so let's separate the script and scheduled tasks.
Create a file called "C:\Scheduled Tasks\Collect Metrics.cmd" and add below content (don't add -WindowStyle Hidden which will make the window invisiable)
REM ----------------------------- Start
C:\Windows\System32\WindowsPowerShell\v1.0\powershell.exe -NonInteractive -command ". 'C:\Scheduled Tasks\Collect Metrics.ps1'"
REM ----------------------------- End
Now create another file called "C:\Scheduled Tasks\Collect Metrics.ps1" and add this content...
#----------------------------- Start
. 'C:\Program Files\Microsoft\Exchange Server\V15\bin\RemoteExchange.ps1'; Connect-ExchangeServer -auto
. 'C:\Program Files\Microsoft\Exchange Server\V15\Scripts\CollectOverMetrics.ps1' -DatabaseAvailabilityGroup DAGDB1 -StartTime (Get-Date).AddDays(-1) -EndTime (Get-Date) -GenerateHTMLReport
$attachment = "C:\Program Files\Microsoft\Exchange Server\V15\Scripts\" + (Get-ChildItem "C:\Program Files\Microsoft\Exchange Server\V15\Scripts\*.htm" | ?{$_.lastwritetime -gt (get-date).addhours(-1)}).name
send-mailmessage -to [email protected] -from [email protected] -subject "this is a test" -smtpserver "FQDN of email server" -Attachments "$attachment"
#----------------------------- End
Now go to command prompt and go to path C:\Scheduled Tasks and run "Collect Metrics.cmd" that will show you what is going on when it is getting executed... This will help you to find what's the issue is...
Once you are able to address the issue which is coming during this run, just schedule the "C:\Scheduled Tasks\Collect Metrics.ps1" under task scheduler with the account which has proper Exchange 2013 rights and by selecting "Run weather
user is logged on or not"  and "Run with highest privileges" under that task...
Here is the output from the collect metrics.cmd:
C:\Scheduled Tasks>REM ----------------------------- Start
C:\Scheduled Tasks>C:\Windows\System32\WindowsPowerShell\v1.0\powershell.exe -No
nInteractive -command ". 'C:\Scheduled Tasks\Collect Metrics.ps1'"
Welcome to the Exchange Management Shell!
Full list of cmdlets: Get-Command
Only Exchange cmdlets: Get-ExCommand
Cmdlets that match a specific string: Help *<string>*
Get general help: Help
Get help for a cmdlet: Help <cmdlet name> or <cmdlet name> -?
Exchange team blog: Get-ExBlog
Show full output for a command: <command> | Format-List
Show quick reference guide: QuickRef
Tip of the day #43:
Do you have a user who has network access but maintains an external mail account outside your Exchange organization? Wit
h Exchange 2013, you can now create mail-enabled users that are regular Active Directory accounts, but also behave like
mail-enabled contacts. By using the Enable-MailUser cmdlet, you can add email contact attributes to any existing Active
Directory user who doesn't already have a mailbox on an Exchange server. Users in your Exchange organization will then b
e able to send email messages to that user's external mail account. Type:
Enable-MailUser -Identity <Active Directory Alias> -ExternalEmailAddress <Destination SMTP Address>
VERBOSE: Connecting to FQDN.mail.server.
VERBOSE: Connected to FQDN.mail.server.
Get statistics from ACTIVE Copy DB Server
Get statistics from Passive Copy DB Server
Found total of 0 entries
Generated the following per-DAG reports:
C:\Scheduled Tasks\FailoverReport.DAGDB1.2015_01_11_22_04_57.csv
Importing data from C:\Scheduled Tasks\FailoverReport.DAGDB1.2015_01_11_22_04_57.csv
Generating summary report
WriteHtmlReport : Cannot bind argument to parameter 'Data' because it is null.
At C:\Program Files\Microsoft\Exchange Server\V15\Scripts\CollectOverMetrics.ps1:1463 char:31
+ WriteHtmlReport -Data $AmOperationsData -ReportPath $HtmlSummaryReportNa ...
+ ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
+ CategoryInfo : InvalidData: (:) [WriteHtmlReport], ParameterBindingValidationException
+ FullyQualifiedErrorId : ParameterArgumentValidationErrorNullNotAllowed,WriteHtmlReport
Summary report is C:\Scheduled Tasks\FailoverSummary.2015_01_11_22_04_57.htm
The property 'name' cannot be found on this object. Verify that the property exists.
At C:\Scheduled Tasks\Collect Metrics.ps1:7 char:2
+ $attachment = "C:\Program Files\Microsoft\Exchange Server\V15\Scripts\" + (Get- ...
+ ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
+ CategoryInfo : NotSpecified: (:) [], PropertyNotFoundException
+ FullyQualifiedErrorId : PropertyNotFoundStrict
The variable '$attachment' cannot be retrieved because it has not been set.
At C:\Scheduled Tasks\Collect Metrics.ps1:9 char:164
+ ... -Attachments "$attachment"
+ ~~~~~~~~~~~
+ CategoryInfo : InvalidOperation: (attachment:String) [], RuntimeException
+ FullyQualifiedErrorId : VariableIsUndefined
C:\Scheduled Tasks>REM ----------------------------- End
C:\Scheduled Tasks>