How can I get the Log directory?

Question

I have recently installed SSAS on my servers and instead of going through 24 of them, I am writing a script to get back the logDir of the servers.

I am trying to do something like this:

Import-Module SqlServer

$Analysis_Server = New-Object Microsoft.AnalysisServices.Server 
$Analysis_Server.connect("$server")

$Analysis_Server.ServerProperties.LogDir

I am trying to find the logDir property from here to no avail.

If I use ServerProperties, I get a list of all properties available like this:

Name : LogDir

Type :

Value : S:....

DefaultValue : \data

PendingValue : S:...

RequiresRestart : True

IsReadOnly : False

DisplayFlag : True

Category : Basic

Units : Folder

PropertyName : LogDir

FolderName

But if I do: $Analysis_Server.ServerProperties.LogDir.value or $Analysis_Server.ServerProperties.LogDir, it returns nothing.

Update

This is how I plan to run through multiple servers:

$h = @{}
Import-Csv '$csvFile' | ForEach-Object {
    $h += @{$($_.Server -split '\s*,\s*') }
}

Import-Module SqlServer

foreach($server in $h.Keys){ 

    $result = "$server"
    Write-Host $result

   $Analysis_Server = New-Object Microsoft.AnalysisServices.Server  
   $Analysis_Server.connect("$server") 

   $Analysis_Server.ServerProperties['LogDir'].value
}

This is my CSV file (I plan to use this for multiple purposes, so I only want to get the servers not databases for this case):

I got back this error:

Missing '=' operator after key in hash literal.

Answer 1

This might get you part of they way there. I don't have an analysis server at my disposal you may have to change this up a bit till you get it right.

$servers=get-content c:\temp\servers.txt
$hash=new-object hashtable
$Analysis_Server = New-Object Microsoft.AnalysisServices.Server 
foreach($s in $servers)
{      
  $Analysis_Server.connect("$s")
  $hash.add($s, $"$($Analysis_Server.ServerProperties['LogDir'])")

}

To see more great content on hashtables checkout this link: https://kevinmarquette.github.io/2016-11-06-powershell-hashtable-everything-you-wanted-to-know-about/