All PRTG - Output Function

[vMarkusK]

Create a function to create XML Output for PRTG.

[Thyranix]

You could use something like this:

Function Write-XmlToScreen ([xml]$XML)
{
    $StringWriter = New-Object System.IO.StringWriter;
    $XmlWriter = New-Object System.Xml.XmlTextWriter $StringWriter;
    $XmlWriter.Formatting = "indented";
    $xml.WriteTo($XmlWriter);
    $XmlWriter.Flush();
    $StringWriter.Flush();
    Write-Output $StringWriter.ToString();
}

Using this you can just build your XML like this:

$XML = "<prtg>"
$XML += "<result><channel>Channel1</channel><value>1</value></result>"
$XML += "</prtg>"

Running the function against $XML will return properly formatted XML data:

Write-XmlToScreen $XML

Output:

<prtg>
  <result>
    <channel>Channel1</channel>
    <value>1</value>
  </result>
</prtg>

As you can imagine you can just add to $XML throughout the script and send it all to PRTG at the end.

[vMarkusK]

That's a very good start. But I thought of a function that has an array or special object as input and then the PRTG compliant XML is created as a return.