powershell automatic data creation time watch - powershell

Question

i have a windows server with some hotfolders, all data in the folders will be transfered in a other directory. But sometimes the data stucks in the same folder and the service is still running.
Because of that i wanted to created a powershell script that watch the data creation time and compare it with the actual time. If the difference is more then 10 min send Mail to me, that i can restart the service.
The script should do loop if he detect a data that isn´t transferred and send only one mail and not a mail for every data.
I tryed it for myself and stuck at this point:
Get-ChildItem -Force C:\Ueberwachung
Where-Object{($_.LastWriteTime -le $CurDate.AddMinutes(-10))}
$PSEmailServer = "192.168.0.11"
ForEach ($file in $Files) {Send-MailMessage -to "luis.jablonski#boyn.eu" -from "PowerShell
<ps#boyn.eu>" -Subject "Hotfolder Alarm" -body "Dateien werden nicht bearbeitet"
break
}
the script detectet all datas in the folder see:
Verzeichnis: C:\Ueberwachung
Mode LastWriteTime Length Name
---- ------------- ------ ----
-a---- 30.04.2021 09:39 0 asdsad.pptx
-a---- 30.04.2021 09:39 0 sadsada.docx
-a---- 30.04.2021 09:39 0 sadsadsadsad.txt
-a---- 28.04.2021 16:03 0 test.txt
but doesnt send me a mail, so i think something like my trigger or the compare with the actual time doenst work.
Has anybody a Idea what my Problem ist?
Im glad for every help
Dear Luis

Answer 1

Your script is behaving as I would expect.
Get-ChildItem is output to screen as it is not placed into a list ($Files).
$Files is empty so the loop is never 'looped'.
Issues here:
In the line: ForEach ($file in $Files) {Send-MailMessage... You
have not added anything to $Files. You could pipe Get-ChildItem -Force C:\Ueberwachung Where-Object{($_.LastWriteTime -le $CurDate.AddMinutes(-10))} to $Files to give the list some data.
Other wise $Files is empty so there's nothing to loop through and
therefore, no emails.
As mentioned, Send-MailMessage needs the param -smtpserver $PSEmailServer added, so it knows via which SMTP server to send the
emails.
Last but not least, do you really want an email per file in $Files?
Perhaps you want to change the code so that the list of $Files is in
the email body as a whole?
Not quite sure why break is in there?