![]() NAME Get-StatType SYNOPSIS Retrieves the available statistics types for a inventory object. SYNTAX Get-StatType [[-Name] StatInterval[]>] [-Realtime] [-Server DESCRIPTION Retrieves the available statistics types for a virtual machine, virtual machine host, cluster, or resource pool. Pe rformance statistics types can be filtered by their names, start and finish times, and collection intervals. If th e Realtime parameter is set, the Start and Finish parameters are ignored. PARAMETERS -Name Specify the names of the statistics types you want to retrieve. Required? false Position? 1 Default value Accept pipeline input? false Accept wildcard characters? true -Entity Specify clusters, virtual machine hosts, resource pools, or virtual machines, for which you want to retrieve th e available statistics types. Required? true Position? 2 Default value Accept pipeline input? true (ByValue) Accept wildcard characters? true -Start Specify the beginning of the time range for which the statistics types you want to retrieve are collected. The valid format is dd/mm/yyyy. This value corresponds to the server time. When the start time is omitted, the retu rned statistics types start from the first available statistics type in the system. Required? false Position? named Default value Accept pipeline input? false Accept wildcard characters? false -Finish Specify the end of the time range for which the statistics types you want to retrieve are collected. The valid format is dd/mm/yyyy. This value corresponds to the server time. When the finish time is omitted, the returned result includes up to the most recent statistics type. Required? false Position? named Default value Accept pipeline input? false Accept wildcard characters? false -Interval Specify the interval, at which the statistics types you want to retrieve are gathered. The interval can be spec ified by its name or by its sampling period in seconds. Required? false Position? named Default value Accept pipeline input? false Accept wildcard characters? true -Realtime Indicate that you want to retrieve realtime statistics type as well. If this parameter is set, the Start and Fi nish parameters are ignored. Required? false Position? named Default value Accept pipeline input? false Accept wildcard characters? false -Server Specify the vSphere servers on which you want to run the cmdlet. If no value is given to this parameter, the co mmand runs on the default servers. For more information about default servers, see the description of Connect-V IServer. Required? false Position? named Default value Accept pipeline input? false Accept wildcard characters? true This cmdlet supports the common parameters: Verbose, Debug, ErrorAction, ErrorVariable, WarningAction, WarningVariable, OutBuffer and OutVariable. For more information, type, "get-help about_commonparameters". INPUTS OUTPUTS System.String NOTES Zero or more strings representing statistics types. -------------- Example 1 -------------- C:\PS>Get-StatType -Entity VM Retrieves the statistics types collected for the VM virtual machine. RELATED LINKS Online version: http://www.vmware.com/support/developer/PowerCLI/PowerCLI501/html/Get-StatType.html Get-Stat Get-StatInterval New-StatInterval Remove-StatInterval Set-StatInterval |