I have a Powershell script that I found on the net and have customized to my own liking that spits out select WMI information on a remote host. Originally, you had to edit the script to include the machines you wanted information on but I have modified it to ask for the hostname of the machine you want information on. What I can't figure out, which is probably pretty straightforward is, at the end of the script I'd like for it to ask "To close press Enter, to lookup another host, press Y" and then obviously, if they hit Enter, it closes the PS window or goes back to the prompt. Pressing Y causes the script to execute from Line 1 and start all over again.

Here's one way:

So that worked except it doesn't matter if I hit Y or N, it repeats the script. I replaced "Run yours script here" with my script and that's it.

In fact, here's the script I'm inserting:

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$choices = [System.Management.Automation.Host.ChoiceDescription[]] @("&Y","&N")
while ( $true ){
  $userinput = Read-Host "Input Hostname"

$ArrComputers =  $userinput

#Specify the list of PC names in the line above. "." means local system

foreach ($Computer in $ArrComputers)
{
    $computerSystem = get-wmiobject Win32_ComputerSystem -Computer $Computer
    $computerBIOS = get-wmiobject Win32_BIOS -Computer $Computer
    $computerOS = get-wmiobject Win32_OperatingSystem -Computer $Computer
    $computerCPU = get-wmiobject Win32_Processor -Computer $Computer
        write-host "System Information for: " $computerSystem.Name -BackgroundColor DarkCyan
        "-------------------------------------------------------"
        "Manufacturer: " + $computerSystem.Manufacturer
        "Model: " + $computerSystem.Model
        "Serial Number: " + $computerBIOS.SerialNumber
        "CPU: " + $computerCPU.Name
        "RAM: " + "{0:N2}" -f ($computerSystem.TotalPhysicalMemory/1GB) + "GB"
        "Operating System: " + $computerOS.caption + ", Service Pack: " + $computerOS.ServicePackMajorVersion
        "User logged In: " + $computerSystem.UserName
        "Last Reboot: " + $computerOS.ConvertToDateTime($computerOS.LastBootUpTime)
        ""
        "-------------------------------------------------------"
  $choice = $Host.UI.PromptForChoice("Repeat the script?","",$choices,0)
  if ( $choice -ne 0 ) {
    break
  }
 }
}

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• Edited by USMCGrunt0307 10 hours 29 minutes ago

So that worked except it doesn't matter if I hit Y or N, it repeats the script. I replaced "Run yours script here" with my script and that's it.

In fact, here's the script I'm inserting:

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$choices = [System.Management.Automation.Host.ChoiceDescription[]] @("&Y","&N")
while ( $true ){
  $userinput = Read-Host "Input Hostname"

$ArrComputers =  $userinput

#Specify the list of PC names in the line above. "." means local system

foreach ($Computer in $ArrComputers)
{
    $computerSystem = get-wmiobject Win32_ComputerSystem -Computer $Computer
    $computerBIOS = get-wmiobject Win32_BIOS -Computer $Computer
    $computerOS = get-wmiobject Win32_OperatingSystem -Computer $Computer
    $computerCPU = get-wmiobject Win32_Processor -Computer $Computer
        write-host "System Information for: " $computerSystem.Name -BackgroundColor DarkCyan
        "-------------------------------------------------------"
        "Manufacturer: " + $computerSystem.Manufacturer
        "Model: " + $computerSystem.Model
        "Serial Number: " + $computerBIOS.SerialNumber
        "CPU: " + $computerCPU.Name
        "RAM: " + "{0:N2}" -f ($computerSystem.TotalPhysicalMemory/1GB) + "GB"
        "Operating System: " + $computerOS.caption + ", Service Pack: " + $computerOS.ServicePackMajorVersion
        "User logged In: " + $computerSystem.UserName
        "Last Reboot: " + $computerOS.ConvertToDateTime($computerOS.LastBootUpTime)
        ""
        "-------------------------------------------------------"
  $choice = $Host.UI.PromptForChoice("Repeat the script?","",$choices,0)
  if ( $choice -ne 0 ) {
    break
  }
 }
}

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• Edited by USMCGrunt0307 Saturday, June 20, 2015 8:40 PM

That is because the break statement terminates your foreach loop, not the while loop.

You don't need a foreach loop in your script, unless you also want to create code that splits the input into an array.

I'm sorry, I'm not that familiar with scripting, if I take either function, the break or foreach, it breaks the script and I can't seem to figure out where these functions should be in the script. My understanding is that the foreach statement is needed to run the information in the variable through a process at each line and that the break is needed to terminate the script loop if the user selects 'N'.

Take out the foreach loop and just repeat for one computer at a time.

Oh I see now, thank you sir.