Invoke-Command Get-Counter

Question

Hi
I'm trying to run some code on remote computers that use get-counter. But the problem is when the data is returned the CounterSamples is not as expected and the data is just:
Microsoft.PowerShell.Commands.GetCounter.PerformanceCounterSample
What am i doing wrong?

Answer 1

True :)
When i run this:
$data = get-counter "\Memory\Available kbytes"
$data.CounterSamples
I get this:
Path                                    InstanceName                                
                       CookedValue
\\hyp20\memory\available kbytes                                                                  
             52592044
When i run this:
$data1 = invoke-command -computername hyp20 -scriptblock {get-counter "\Memory\Available kbytes"}
$data1.CounterSamples
I get this:
Microsoft.PowerShell.Commands.GetCounter.PerformanceCounterSample
Do you need to use the results for some further use? If not, what happens when change the Invoke-Command line to:
Invoke-Command -ComputerName hyp20 -scriptblock {
$data = Get-Counter "\Memory\Availabile kbytes"
$data.CounterSamples
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