Windows 10 Powershell script to monitor device status

Neemobeer

Cloud Security Engineer
Staff member
Another powershell script. This one is for monitoring systems and to send alerts if a monitored system is no longer pingable. It generates a balloon notification and an email alert. It is similar to my laptop tracking script. Run the script once to configure it then add your hosts you wish to monitor to the hosts file in the configuration folder one host per line.

Code:
$rootdir = "$env:ProgramData\Neemobeer"
$configdir = "$rootdir\ServerMonitor"
$credfile = "$configdir\cred"
$configfile = "$configdir\config"
$hostfile = "$configdir\hosts"


Function Set-Setup
{
    #Prompt for configuration information
    New-Item -Path $configdir -ItemType Directory
    "Configuration folder missing, please enter setup info..."
    $server = Read-Host -Prompt "Enter email server"
    $port = Read-Host -Prompt "Enter email port"
    $emailto = Read-Host -Prompt "Enter To email address"
    $emailfrom = Read-Host -Prompt "Enter From email address"
    $user = Read-Host -Prompt "Enter email username"
    Write-Host 'Enter your password:' -ForegroundColor Red
    $pass = Read-Host -AsSecureString | ConvertFrom-SecureString | Out-File $credfile

        #Create Configuration File
    $monitor_file = New-Item -Path $configfile -ItemType File
    Out-File -FilePath $monitor_file.FullName -Append -InputObject ("server:$server")
    Out-File -FilePath $monitor_file.FullName -Append -InputObject ("port:$port")
    Out-File -FilePath $monitor_file.FullName -Append -InputObject ("username:$user")
    Out-File -FilePath $monitor_file.FullName -Append -InputObject ("to:$emailto")
    Out-File -FilePath $monitor_file.FullName -Append -InputObject ("from:$emailfrom")

    #Create hosts file
    New-Item -Path $hostfile -ItemType File
}

#Show a Notification balloon when a host is unreachable
Function Get-Notification([string]$Title, [string]$Message)
{

    $notify = New-Object System.Windows.Forms.NotifyIcon

    $notify.Icon = "C:\Windows\ProgressError.ico"
    $notify.BalloonTipIcon = "Error"
    $notify.BalloonTipText = $Message
    $notify.BalloonTipTitle = $Title

    $notify.Visible = $True
    $notify.ShowBalloonTip(5000)
}

#Setup configuration
If (!(Test-Path -Path $rootdir))
{
    New-Item -Path $rootdir -ItemType Directory
    Set-Setup
} ElseIf (!(Test-Path $configdir))
{
    New-Item -Path $configdir -ItemType Directory
    Set-Setup
}
Else
{
    $server =""
    $port = ""
    $to = ""
    $from = ""
    $user = ""

    #Read configuration file to configure
    #sending email
    $config = Get-Content $configfile
    Foreach ($c In $config)
    {
        If($c.Contains("server:"))
        {
            $split = $c.Split(":")
            $server = $split[1]
        }
        If($c.Contains("port:"))
        {
            $split = $c.Split(":")
            $port = $split[1]
        }
        If($c.Contains("from:"))
        {
            $split = $c.Split(":")
            $from = $split[1]
        }
        If($c.Contains("to:"))
        {
            $split = $c.Split(":")
            $to = $split[1]
        }
        If($c.Contains("username:"))
        {
            $split = $c.Split(":")
            $user = $split[1]
        }
    }

    #Create Credential object for sending email
    $secpass = Get-Content $credfile | ConvertTo-SecureString
    $PSCred = New-Object -TypeName System.Management.Automation.PSCredential -ArgumentList $user,$secpass


    $hosts = (Get-Content $hostfile)

    While ($True)
    {
        "Checking hosts at $(Get-Date)"
        ForEach ($h In $hosts)
        {
            If (!(Test-Connection -ComputerName $h -Quiet))
            {
                Get-Notification -Title "Host Down" -Message "Host: $h is down"
                #Form html message body
                $header = "<!DOCTYPE html>`r<html>`r<head>`r<meta charset=`"UTF-8`"></head>"
                $body += $header
                $body = "<body>`r<p>Host: $h appears to be down."
                              
                #send email
                Send-MailMessage -SmtpServer $server -Port:$port -From $from -To $to `
                    -Subject "External IP has changed" -BodyAsHtml $body -Credential $PSCred -UseSsl
            } Else
            {
                "Host: $h is up"
            }
        }
        "Sleeping at $(Get-Date)"
        Start-Sleep -Seconds 360
    }
}
 
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