2012 Scripting Games Advanced Event 10: Create a CSV Log File

Anonymous — Fri, 13 Apr 2012 05:00:00 GMT

Summary: In Advanced Event 10, you want to create a CSV log file of all the counters in the Processor counter set.

About this event

Division	Advanced
Date of Event	4/13/2012 12:01 AM
Due Date	4/20/2012 12:01 AM

Event scenario

You are a server admin, and you are concerned about the processor performance of one particular server. You decide to use Windows PowerShell to create a CSV log file of all the counters in the Processor counter set. You decide to take the counter snapshot at two-second intervals for a total of ten snapshots. You plan to analyze the data in a Microsoft Excel spreadsheet. An acceptable output is shown in the figure that follows. Create the CSV file in the Documents special folder for the current logged-on user. The file name should be servername_processorCounters.csv.

Design points

Make sure that you include all of the counters for all instances of the processor object.
Make sure that the saved CSV file is readable from within Microsoft Excel.
Make sure that you get the number of snapshots with the prescribed time between snapshots.
This can be a “one liner” single logical command. Do not write complex, difficult-to-understand script because you will lose points.

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2012 Scripting Games Advanced Event 10: Create a CSV Log File

Event scenario

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