Powershell scripting to send emails based on events in event viewer **PROBLEM IS SENDING attachment of log**

Question

$emailFrom = "[email protected]"
$emailTo = "[email protected]"
$subject = "$env:COMPUTERNAME : A VM was successfully migrated."
$body = "$env:COMPUTERNAME : A VM was successfully migrated."
$smtpServer = "smtp.domain.com"
$smtp = new-object Net.Mail.SmtpClient($smtpServer)
$smtp.Send($emailFrom, $emailTo, $subject, $body)
this is a template of a ps1 script i wrote. This will send the above email based on a specific event ID for the microsoft failover cluster / operational, say ID 5143 for example. My question is how do i include in that script to also include a copy of the
log for that event ID in the body of the email ?

Answer 1

You problem with this code is that the SMTPClient send method does not handle attachements.
Instead, try creating the message, using the system.net.mail.mailmessage class to create the message.Then create a mail attachment. Finally, add the attachment to the message. This allows you to craate an attachment, then use the SMTPServer object to send
that mail.
The code should look something like this:
$To      = "[email protected]"
$From    = "[email protected]"
$Subject = "Using the .NET SMTP client."
$Body    = "Using this .NET feature, you can send an e-mail message from an application very easily."
# Create mail message
$Message = New-Object System.Net.Mail.MailMessage $From, $To, $Subject, $Body
$AttchmentText = get-content C:\foo\aaaaaaa.txt  # or whatever
# Now create Attachement content type
$ct = new-object System.Net.Mime.Contenttype
$ct.name = 'text/plain'
# Now create an attachment of that type
$attachment = [System.Net.Mail.Attachment]::CreateAttachmentFromString($attchmenttext,$ct)
# Next add Attachment to the message
$message.Attachments.Add($attachment)
# and now create smtp server
$smtpServer = "COOKHAM8"
$smtp = new-object Net.Mail.SmtpClient($smtpServer)
$smtp.Send($message)
I tested this script on my system and it works. You may need to play around a bit with the attachment, in terms of content type, etc.
Thomas Lee <[email protected]>