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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 Beginner Event 10: Collect Performance Counter Information

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

Summary: In Beginner Event 10, you are required to collect performance counter information about your CPU.

About this event

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

Event scenario

You are a network administrator for a small company, and you are attempting to monitor a transient problem with CPU spiking on one of your servers. You decide that rather than running the performance monitor or task manager, you want to use Windows PowerShell to collect the performance counter information. You do not have time to manually choose a bunch of counters, but you want to gather all of the counter information from the processor counter set. You should take three separate readings at five-second intervals. All of the counter information should be appended to a single text file that is named after the server and placed in the Documents special folder. An appropriate output is shown in the image that follows.

Design points

You can write the performance counter information directly to a text file named after the server. Place the text file into the Documents special folder. The file name will look like the following: servername_ProcessorCounters.txt.
Your command should retrieve all of the performance counter information from the Processor performance counter set.
You do not need to write a long convoluted script to meet the requirements of this scenario. You will lose points for long, complicated, hard-to-read scripts.
A “one liner” command can be written that will satisfy the requirements of this scenario.
You should use native Windows PowerShell commands for this scenario where possible.

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The 2011 Scripting Games Beginner Event 10: Use PowerShell to Measure Time to Complete a Command

Anonymous — Fri, 15 Apr 2011 05:00:00 GMT

Summary : Beginner Event 10 in 2011 Scripting Games uses Windows PowerShell to determine the amount of time a command takes to complete. About this event Division Beginner Date of Event 4/15/2011 12:01 AM Due Date 4/22/2011 12:01 AM Event scenario Your...(read more)