It does in that it reports to the display success or failure of each backup as seen below in this snip of the script:     Try    {    $DontShow = Backup-Ucs -PreservePooledValues -Type $UCSbackupType -Ucs $UcsName -PathPattern $BackupFile -ErrorAction Stop    }    Catch    {    Write-Output "    ***WARNING*** Error creating backup: $BackupFile"    Write-Output "   NOTE: This is normal behavior for a full-state backup on a UCS Emulator"    Write-Output ""    }    Finally    {    if (Test-Path $BackupFile -eq $true)    {    Write-Output "    Complete - $BackupFile"    Write-Output ""    }    } It would be fairly simple to take the success or error and write that to a log file for each backup or do something else with it depending on your needs.  These scripts are samples/examples so feel free to take it and modify it for your needs. ... View more

It wouldn't be difficult to change the script to output to a CSV file rather than Excel directly.  I wouldn't see a need to write a second script to process the data.  The only thing you loose with having the data collected and then opened in Excel...as Excel can directly open a CSV...is the formatting.  Things like the bolded and underlined titles and the cell widths. I post these scripts as examples and encourage folks to use the base work and customize it for their requirements.  Please make any changes you'd like.  I'll also encourage you to post your results back here on communities so the broader public can take advantage of it ... View more

That's fantastic to hear.  Glad it helped you and you were able to customize it for your specific requirements.  Take care! ... View more

Mark,      It seems that this object is not receiving it's value.  This is a system object that is automatically provided a value with the directory location of the script.  The only time I've not seen this filled in is if I've copied some contents into a powershell editor and run them without saving them first.  Beyond that we'd have to debug your environment which I'm will to do.  If you'd like to do that we can schedule a Webex and look over your environment.  I have lots of folks using this script without issue so I'm thinking this is a unique situation with your environment.  Let me know if you want to do this. ... View more

Thanks much!  It's been super helpful to me.  I just uploaded the ZIP file that contains the script to also include a sample.  That should make it easy to figure out the format.  let me now if you have any questions! ... View more

Allen,   I am not seeing the issue you are having in my environment.  I have UCS B and C series server running Server 2012R2 and then have a lot of VM's on top of them with Hyper-V.  I use static addressing, not DHCP for my bare metal servers and only designate my lab management NIC to have DNS entries.  when I look in my AD servers running DNS I only see the lab management network having registered which is why it always responds with the proper IP for the name.  A few things I would suggest looking at is: 1 - I don't provide a default gateway on any NICs except the lab management NIC 2 - I don't have DNS entries on the 'other' NICs in my environment 3 - I have my lab management NIC ordered first in Windows 4 - It is not ordered first in UCS and what I believe your issue will turn out to be is: 5 - in my DNS servers I have DNS enabled ONLY on the lab management NIC.  As such the other NICs can't reach DNS to register themselves.  As such I only see name/ip mappings in DNS for my lab management NIC.  To configure this, open the DNS manager, select the DNS server and right click and select properties.  On the interfaces tab change from all the IPs to select only the one you want. Other's may question having only a single network with management though and I'd be interested to hear others solutions. Good Luck! Joe ... View more

Rajath,      I can do an overview and walkthrough of UCSM for you so you can understand the architecture and how the Software Defined Compute layer interacts via Service Profiles.  I have been very focused on Microsoft technologies and do a lot with the PowerShell library for UCS to script out many functions.  We also have a Python library.  I am in the process of bringing myself up to speed on OpenStack so I'd love to use this as an opportunity to meet you, help you out and then maybe be able to ask you some OpenStack stuff in the future.  I'm in the directory.  Reach out to me and we can do a Webex! ... View more

Can you provide me some more information?  I just tested the script in my lab and NTP servers and Timezone properly configured. Please provide me a snippit of the answer file for the timezone and NTP information.  Validate that you are using the latest build script and answer file from communities.  Also, what UCS system (Standard, Mini, M-Series) and firmware are you running this against? ... View more

Donald, sorry for my late reply but I'm just back from a 3 month leave.  Did you get this working?  Do you need assistance? ... View more

Jonathan, sorry for my late reply but I'm just back from a 3 month leave.  Did you get this working?  Do you need assistance? ... View more

Rafael, sorry for my late reply but I'm just back from a 3 month leave.  Did you get this working?  Do you need assistance? ... View more

Ronald, sorry for my late reply.  I'm just back from a 3 month leave.  Did you get this figured out? ... View more