Powershell Convert Table To Array - powershell

Question

I'm trying to run a query in WSUS API via Powershell that outputs computer names, needed patches, etc, and then I need to inject that into a "log" file which gets ingested into Splunk so we can make dashboards etc.
My current code is
$computerscope = New-Object Microsoft.UpdateServices.Administration.ComputerTargetScope
$LogTime = Get-Date -Format "MM-dd-yyyy_hh-mm-ss"
$updatescope = New-Object Microsoft.UpdateServices.Administration.UpdateScope
$wsus.GetSummariesPerComputerTarget($updatescope,$computerscope) |
Select-Object $logtime,#{L=’ComputerTarget';E={($wsus.GetComputerTarget([guid]$_.ComputerTargetId)).FullDomainName}},
#{L=’NeededCount';E={($_.DownloadedCount + $_.NotInstalledCount)}},DownloadedCount,NotApplicableCount,NotInstalledCount,InstalledCount,FailedCount | Select-String Computer
Output comes out like this:
#{05-13-2016_05-12-25=; ComputerTarget=########; NeededCount=12; DownloadedCount=0; NotApplicableCount=82245; NotInstalledCount=12; InstalledCount=23; FailedCount=0}
I need it to look like this:
05-13-2016_05-12-25=; ComputerTarget=#######; NeededCount=12; DownloadedCount=0; NotApplicableCount=82245; NotInstalledCount=12; InstalledCount=23; FailedCount=0
If you want to try the root of the problem, I'm trying to convert a table into arrays so splunk can read it line by line but this gives a table which i'm trying to convert:
$computerscope = New-Object Microsoft.UpdateServices.Administration.ComputerTargetScope
$LogTime = Get-Date -Format "MM-dd-yyyy_hh-mm-ss"
$updatescope = New-Object Microsoft.UpdateServices.Administration.UpdateScope
$wsus.GetSummariesPerComputerTarget($updatescope,$computerscope) |
Select-Object $logtime,#{L=’ComputerTarget';E={($wsus.GetComputerTarget([guid]$_.ComputerTargetId)).FullDomainName}},
#{L=’NeededCount';E={($_.DownloadedCount + $_.NotInstalledCount)}},DownloadedCount,NotApplicableCount,NotInstalledCount,InstalledCount,FailedCount `
which gives output:
05-13-2016_05-16-04 :
ComputerTarget : ########
NeededCount : 12
DownloadedCount : 0
NotApplicableCount : 82245
NotInstalledCount : 12
InstalledCount : 23
FailedCount : 0

Answer 1

It looks like you only want to remove the leading #{ and trailing } which you could do with regex like this:
...allyourcode... | Select-String Computer | ForEach-Object { $_.Line -replace '^\#\{(.*?)\}$', '$1' }
However, making Select-String convert your objects to string-representations is a bad way to export data. Splunk can read CSV-files, so I would recommend using that (and also use a real property for logtime). Ex:
$computerscope = New-Object Microsoft.UpdateServices.Administration.ComputerTargetScope
$LogTime = Get-Date -Format "MM-dd-yyyy_hh-mm-ss"
$updatescope = New-Object Microsoft.UpdateServices.Administration.UpdateScope
$wsus.GetSummariesPerComputerTarget($updatescope,$computerscope) |
Select-Object #{L="LogTime";e={ $logtime }},#{L=’ComputerTarget';E={($wsus.GetComputerTarget([guid]$_.ComputerTargetId)).FullDomainName}},
#{L=’NeededCount';E={($_.DownloadedCount + $_.NotInstalledCount)}},DownloadedCount,NotApplicableCount,NotInstalledCount,InstalledCount,FailedCount |
Export-Csv -Path mydata.csv -NoTypeInformation