PowerCLI script to monitor recent vSphere Tasks

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I haven’t had much time to look at vSphere 6.5 yet, but appearently the C# client is no more. I used to always have the C# client up as a diagnostic tool so that I could watch events trigger in real time as opposed to having to refresh the vSphere web client. Normally I’d open the C# client in full screen and then arrange my browsers so that they would cover the C# client but leave room so I’d be able to see the recent tasks pane. This would allow me to work in another product like vRealize Automation and see events appear in vCenter immediately.

If I can’t use the C# client to do this going forward, I thought I’d create a little PowerCLI script to provide me with the same information. I’m not sure how well it will work out yet, but you can find it on GitHub.

The result look like this:

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