Is there a way to email specific powershell results - powershell

Question

Test-Connection -ComputerName (Get-Content 'C:\xxxxx\xxxxx.txt') -ErrorAction Continue -Count 1
I currently use the above command to test connections on sevreal remote PCs. It's basic and does the job, however i am looking to automate this and where i get stuck is how to filter only the failed connections from the result and output them as an email?
Thanks
really unsure how to go from here.

Answer 1

You could do something like this:
$unreachables = Get-Content 'C:\xxxxx\xxxxx.txt' | ForEach-Object {
if (-not (Test-Connection -ComputerName $_ -Count 1 -Quiet)) {
# output the failed machines
$_
}
}
if (#($unreachables).Count) {
# create a Hashtable with parameters used for splatting to Send-MailMessage
# something like this
$mailParams = #{
From = 'me#contoso.com'
To = 'mycolleague#contoso.com'
Subject = "unreachable computers"
SmtpServer = 'mail.contoso.com'
Body = "The following computers are off-line ({0}):`r`n`r`n{1}" -f (Get-Date), ($unreachables -join "`r`n")
}
Send-MailMessage #mailParams
}
else {
Write-Host 'All tested computers are online'
}