How to loop Invoke-SwisVerb ?

nerengm

I'm trying to identify and delete old discovery profiles using SwisVerb...I have more powershell experience than SWIS / SWQL and I feel like this should work, but maybe swisverb arguments won't take piped input?  How would you do this?

$oldprofiles =Get-SwisData $swis "SELECT top 2 ProfileID from Orion.discoveryprofiles order by name ASC"

$oldprofiles | Invoke-SwisVerb $swis -EntityName Orion.discovery -Verb DeleteDiscoveryProfile -Arguments @("$_.")

tdanner

Invoke-SwisVerb does not accept pipeline input. You were on the right track with needing a loop. In PowerShell one way to do that is to pipe your objects to the ForEach-Object cmdlet and put the loop body in a script block. Like this:

$oldprofiles | ForEach-Object { Invoke-SwisVerb $swis -EntityName Orion.discovery -Verb DeleteDiscoveryProfile -Arguments @($_) }

% is an alias for ForEach-Object, so this is equivalent:

$oldprofiles |% { Invoke-SwisVerb $swis -EntityName Orion.discovery -Verb DeleteDiscoveryProfile -Arguments @($_) }