Test-Path

[tyrone_owen_1]

Hi,

Hope you can help.

I want to get the IP address of a SVM's cifs lif into a variable and use this variable in Test-Path, but I can't work out what's happening:

$newshare = share_test
$activevserverip = Get-NcNetInterface -Vserver $activevserver -DataProtocols cifs | Select-Object Address

PS C:\Windows\system32> $activevserverip

Address 
------- 
xxx.xxx.21.10

Test-Path "\\$activevserverip\$newshare" -verbose

False

I receive a 'false' even though I know the path is up and accessible. What am I doing wrong please? Is it something like the data type of the IP address? If I create a path variable the IP address details are enclosed in a hash table (?). How can I reduce it to just the IP address?

PS C:\Windows\system32> $path = "\\$activevserverip\$newshare"

PS C:\Windows\system32> $path
\\@{Address=xxx.xxx.21.10}\share_test

Sorry if this is basic

Thanks

[GidonMarcus · Accepted solution]

Use as

Test-Path "\\$($activevserverip.address)\$newshare" -verbose

[tyrone_owen_1]

Brilliant, thank you.

I can see why that works, however I'm not sure why the below doesn't filter down to just the address:

>$activevserverip = Get-NcNetInterface -Vserver $activevserver -DataProtocols cifs | Select-Object Address

>activevserverip

Address 
------- 
10.4.0.9

Any links that you could share which would explain this please?

Thanks again

[GidonMarcus]

Hi,

As in the example below you can get the type by piping the output to GM (get-member).

With using only the "select" - you still have it in a structured data type (in my get-disk example below "Selected.Microso...."), As test-parh don't know this odd data-type ,  you have to extract it into a format it expects (can see in get-help test-path it expects a string). 

PS C:\Users\g> get-help Test-Path

NAME
Test-Path

SYNTAX
Test-Path [-Path] <string[]> [-Filter <string>]..........

PS C:\Users\g> Get-Disk | select FriendlyName | gm

TypeName: Selected.Microsoft.Management.Infrastructure.CimInstance

Name MemberType Definition
---- ---------- ----------
Equals Method bool Equals(System.Object obj)
GetHashCode Method int GetHashCode()
GetType Method type GetType()
ToString Method string ToString()
FriendlyName NoteProperty string FriendlyName=INTEL SSDSC2BF180A5L

PS C:\Users\g> (Get-Disk).FriendlyName
INTEL SSDSC2BF180A5L
PS C:\Users\g> (Get-Disk).FriendlyName | gm

TypeName: System.String

Name MemberType Definition
---- ---------- ----------
Clone Method System.Object Clone(), System.Object ICloneable.Clone()

.......

[tyrone_owen_1]

Thanks for the additional info - very helpful