I'm running the following command from within a Microsoft System Centre Orchestrator PowerShell activity:
Install-WindowsFeature -ConfigurationFilePath C:\DeploymentConfigTemplate.xml -ComputerName ServerXYZ
the command isn't doing what it's supposed to do, and I want to be able to return if the command was successful or not, and any error message if possible. Ignore the fact it's running in Orchestrator, as I'm more concerned about the PowerShell question. When I run the command from ISE it does what it's supposed to do, that's why I want to see what is returned from PowerShell.
Thanks.
It's hard to know what may be happening without more context. The following will record any errors encountered in an xml file that you can import later with import-clixml:
Install-WindowsFeature -ConfigurationFilePath C:\DeploymentConfigTemplate.xml -ComputerName ServerXYZ
IF (!($?)) {
$error[0] | export-clixml C:\myerror.xml
}
This solves my problem:
$Result = Install-WindowsFeature -Name SNMP-Service -IncludeAllSubFeature -IncludeManagementTools
Write-Host $Result.ExitCode
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I'm trying to Start a service using Powershell and using the code below
function CheckServiceStatus {
param($winupdate)
$getservice = Get-Service -Name $winupdate
if($getservice.Status -ne $running){
stop-service $winupdate
Start-Service $winupdate
Write-output "Starting" $winupdate "service"|out-file "C:\Users\Mani\Desktop\abc.txt"
Add-Content C:\Users\Mani\Desktop\abc.txt $getservice.Status
}
}
Read-Host -Prompt "Press Enter to exit"
#Variables
$winupdate = 'vsoagent.192.Shalem'
$running = 'Running'
CheckServiceStatus $winupdate
I got the following error:
Service 'ABC' cannot be stopped due to the following error: Cannot
open ABC service on computer '.'
I found some link here on our forum but couldn't resolve. Please suggest
If you want to start/stop/etc services, you need elevated privileges (run as Admin). You can still get information about the service, but that's it. If you want to include a more verbose error, include this:
$isadmin = [bool](([System.Security.Principal.WindowsIdentity]::GetCurrent()).groups -match "S-1-5-32-544")
if($isadmin){
Write-Error "You need elevated privileges to run this script"
exit(1)
}
...
Rest of your code
Or even better, if you're running Powershell 4.0 or higher (You can get it by checking $PSVersionTable), you can include
#Requires -RunAsAdministrator
At the top of your file, and you won't be able to run it without admin privilages.
I had this issue while running the command on PowerShell ISE. All I did was start the PowerShell ISE as an administrator.
Look into Event Viewer and find more details. In my case, I have found relevant info in Administrative Events, then Service Control Manager. The error was related to insufficient privileges given for the account. The service was creating a new file and this task failed. Of course, your error's details are probabably different, but that is the tip.
I'm trying to invoke a powershell script on to a Virtual Machine and retrieve the output of the script. I'm using the Invoke-AzureRmVMRunCommand cmdlet to invoke the script on the VM as shown below.
$ValidationResult = Invoke-AzureRmVMRunCommand -ResourceGroupName $VM.ResourceGroupName -VMName $VM.Name -CommandId "RunPowerShellScript" -ScriptPath $ValidationScript
When I execute the above cmdlet from a regular powershell terminal, I get the output as expected. However, whenever I'm putting this statement inside an automation runbook, I get null in almost all the fields as shown below
I don't see anything specific to this in documentation as well. Am I doing something wrong here?
Any help would be greatly appreciated! Thank you.
Update:
In the script, I'm logging the output using Write-Output cmdlet.
You need to either add the object name on last line of your script or use the Write-Output command. Otherwise it will not output anything.
The following lines both write an object to the output stream.
Write-Output –InputObject $ValidationResult
$ValidationResult
https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/automation/automation-runbook-output-and-messages
Hope this helps
This issue is most likely due to a reported bug in the AzureRM modules starting with version 5.7.0 / April 2018. Rolling back to version 5.6.0 / March 2018 is reported to fix it. Issue log: https://github.com/Azure/azure-powershell/issues/5982
My Apologies for the delayed response. I was using this in a runbook of type Powershell Workflow. Many of the PowerShell cmdlets behave differently when executed in workflows.
So in this case, what was happening is the Invoke-AzureRmVMRunCommand was executing correctly but the response was only the TYPE of the response and not the actual response object. Hence I was unable to see any values in the response's properties.
In order to make this work, I had to wrap the cmdlet call within an InlineScript {} block.
$ValidationResult = InlineScript {
$result = Invoke-AzureRmVMRunCommand -ResourceGroupName $USING:VM.ResourceGroupName -VMName $USING:VM.Name -CommandId "RunPowerShellScript" -ScriptPath $USING:ValidationScript
$result.SubStatuses[0].Message
}
The result is returned to $ValidationResult variable.
More detailed post is given here: https://amoghnatu.net/2018/04/15/get-output-of-script-executed-as-part-of-set-azurermvmcustomscriptexecution-cmdlet/
Thanks.
I'm just trying to get a script on a local machine run on a remote machine and have a result returned back to the local caller. What am I doing wrong? This is almost verbatim one of several examples I've seen, except they used -ScriptBlock {} to do it. Is this just not possible to achieve using the -FilePath option? I double-checked the local path. Both of the scripts are in the same folder on the same drive on the local machine.
This Caller gives me a blank result.
Local Caller:
Write-Output "Retrieving results from server call."
$returned=Invoke-Command -ComputerName $server -Credential $MyCredential -FilePath D:\scripts\runOnRemote.ps1
Write-Output $returned
The following produces 'DummyMessage' as expected
Alternate Local Caller:
$returned=Invoke-Command -ComputerName $server -Credential $MyCredential -ScriptBlock {
$toReturn = 'DummyMessage'
return $toReturn
}
But this doesn't.
Script trying to run on remote:
$returnMessage = 'DummyMessage'
return $returnMessage
Output:
Retrieving results from server call.
<nothing>
Vs.
Retrieving results from server call.
DummyMessage
The issue was resolved after returning from lunch. It was an ISE bug that just wasn't interpreting new code revisions after so many runs (hence my confusion!).
I'm using Jenkins PowerShell plugin to build a project.
However, I found that Jenkins always considers my build successful no matter what I type inside Windows PowerShell command.
Here's an example:
As you can see, asdf isn't a legal command. Jenkins should give me FAILURE after the build.
But the console output gives me:
Started by user admin
Building in workspace C:\Users\Administrator\.jenkins\jobs\Test\workspace
[workspace] $ powershell.exe -NonInteractive -ExecutionPolicy ByPass "& 'C:\Users\ADMINI~1\AppData\Local\Temp\hudson2092642221832331776.ps1'"
The term 'asdf' is not recognized as the name of a cmdlet, function, script file, or operable program. Check the spelling of the name, or if a path was included, verify that the path is correct and try again.
At C:\Users\ADMINI~1\AppData\Local\Temp\hudson2092642221832331776.ps1:1 char:5
+ asdf <<<<
+ CategoryInfo : ObjectNotFound: (asdf:String) [], CommandNotFoundException
+ FullyQualifiedErrorId : CommandNotFoundException
Finished: SUCCESS
I think the execution result of PowerShell should depend on $lastexitcode.
Is this a bug of PowerShell plugin?
As of 1.3, the plugin will not handle exceptions such as those from missing commands. You can do this yourself with try/catch:
try
{
asdf
}
catch
{
write-host "Caught an exception"
exit 1
}
See MSDN for more.
For me, I wanted the script to stop and fail in Jenkins soon as it hit an error. This was accomplished by adding this to the start of the script:
$ErrorActionPreference = "Stop"
This is discussed here: [How to stop a PowerShell script on the first error?][1]
[1]: How to stop a PowerShell script on the first error?. ..................
Per the latest version of the plugin (Version 1.3 Sept 18 2015), you must use $LastExitCode to fail a build.
Version 1.3 (Sept 18 2015)
PowerShell now runs in Non-Interactive mode to prevent interactive prompts from hanging the build
PowerShell now runs with ExcecutionPolicy set to "Bypass" to avoid execution policy issues
Scripts now exit with $LastExitCode, causing non-zero exit codes to mark a build as failed
Added help and list of available environment variables (including English and French translations)
I want to add here that I just ran into a quirk: you must have the powershell script end with exit and not return.
My jenkins pipe looked like:
script {
result = powershell(returnStatus: true, script: '''...if(error condition) { return 1 }''')
if(result) { error }
}
I was using if(error condition) { return 1 } and while the 1 was showing up as the return value in the jenkins console, it was not failing the build. When i used if(error condition) { exit 1 }, the build failed as expected.
I think this is a helpful addition to this thread - the need to use exit and not return. But I don't understand this part: the pipe is checking for result to be non-zero. What is the difference between exit and return in a powershell directive that makes if(result) { error } not work as expected when using return?
Update Feb-16-2021: Coming back to this to add some more notes from my experience: I think what I was doing and what a lot of people do that confuses things, is to use returnStdout or returnStatus and not check them and/or not fully understand what's coming back.
If you use either of those params, Jenkins will not do anything for you based on their value. You have to check them yourself and act accordingly. On the other hand, if you don't use them, Jenkins will recognize a failure code and fail the pipe if one comes back.
Think about it: If you set returnStatus, you're getting the exit code back from the step as a return value and not as something for Jenkins itself to worry about. If you set returnStdout, you're getting the stdout stream - and not any error codes or anything from stderr. So you must check the return for what you want or you will not get the behavior you are expecting.
What I've been doing for a while is actually not setting either of those params and making sure to set $ErrorActionPreference = 'Stop' at the start of any and all PowerShell scripts running in my pipes. That way any powershell failures automatically fail the pipe as expected, without having to check it.
This is how I implemented RRIROWER's solution. Hope it helps.
<yourscript>.ps1; exit $lastexitcode
Make sure your powershell scripts does exit with the desired value.
Run "exit <value>" as the last line.
Ultimately, I had to resort to the following configuration in Jenkins as none of the solutions here worked for me. Chris Nelson's answer got me on the right track. We're invoking chef-client remotely so we had to do a little magic to get the remote PS session to talk the local and then pass status on to Jenkins.
$res gives the output of chef-client.
$lastsuccess is true or false according to PS rules of engagment.
Of course, you'll have to supply your own evironment variables! :)
Write-host "Deploying $env:Computer with $env:Databag data bag... "
$secstr = ConvertTo-SecureString $env:Password -AsPlainText -Force
$cred = new-object -typename System.Management.Automation.PSCredential -argumentlist $env:User, $secstr
$s = New-PSSession -ComputerName $env:Computer -Credential $cred
$res = Invoke-Command -Session $s -ScriptBlock { try {chef-client} catch {exit 1}}
$lastsuccess = Invoke-Command -Session $s -ScriptBlock {$?}
Remove-PSSession $s
write-host " --- "
write-host $res
write-host " --- "
if($lastsuccess)
{
write-host "chef deployment completed"
exit 0
}
write-host "chef deployment had errors"
exit 1
I am making a cmdlet call to 'set-distributiongroup' in powershell 2. I am simply setting the value of the parameter 'hiddenFromAddressListsEnabled' to a pre-defined boolean value.
However, no matter what I try, it displays a warning message if the boolean assignment is not actually changing the current value of 'hiddenFromAddressListsEnabled'.
Here is the main command I'm invoking:
set-DistributionGroup -identity TestGroup `
-hiddenFromAddressListsEnabled=$true
Let's semantically define what I have above as 'command'.
Now, I've tried adding several different variants, all with proper line-continuation and syntax. Here are those variants:
command > $null
command 2> $null
command -ErrorAction:silentlycontinue
command -ErrorVariable $throwAway
command -WarningAction:silentlycontinue
command -WarningVariable $throwAway
$var = command
Regardless of various combinations of one or more of the above, I still get a yellow WARNING: message spit to output. Specifically, this:
WARNING: The command completed successfully but no settings of
'<xxxxxx>/Users/TestGroup' have been modified.
Any suggestions on a key concept I'm not understanding? I want the command to not produce this output, and I want it to silently continue if this occurs.
Thanks!!
I've been trying to suppress the warning messages when stopping a service:
WARNING: Waiting for service 'Service Description' to finish stopping...
The following worked for me:
Stop-Service $svc.Name -WarningAction SilentlyContinue
If it's just a warning that cause problem why don't you set in your script $WarningPreference variable ?
PS C:\> $WarningPreference='silentlycontinue'
PS C:\> Write-Warning "coucou"
PS C:\> $WarningPreference='continue'
PS C:\> Write-Warning "coucou"
AVERTISSEMENT : coucou
just bumped this topic when searching on the issue,
my case PowerShell v2 , only after setting
$WarningPreference = "SilentlyContinue"
Write-Warning "blah" - returned me nothing... the parameter on the command didn't changed much too on my end.
You may be hitting this bug: http://connect.microsoft.com/PowerShell/feedback/details/541500/warning-verbose-and-debug-streams-do-not-respect-action-preferences-the-way-they-should
Anyway, your command should look like:
Set-DistributionGroup -Identity TestGroup -HiddenFromAddressListsEnabled $true
Your command is wrong. Which is the the reason why you get a yellow error message. The command should look like:
Set-DistributionGroup -Identity TestGroup -HiddenFromAddressListsEnabled $true
Or
Set-Distributionaliste -Identity TestGroup -HiddenFromAddressListsEnabled:$true
But not
Set-DistributionGroup -Identity TestGroup -HiddenFromAddressListsEnabled=$true
I was getting the same problem with the Exchange Management Console in 2010. Problem is the EMC runs on PowerShell 2.0, which as stated before has some bugs around warning preferences.
I found a cheeky workaround was to run my script in a vanilla PowerShell 4.0 shell, and then import the EMC cmdlets and start a new remote PS session like so...
. 'C:\Program Files\Microsoft\Exchange Server\V14\bin\RemoteExchange.ps1'
Connect-ExchangeServer -auto
...then, -WarningAction:SilentlyContinue suddenly starts behaving itself.
You should try
Set-DistributionGroup -Identity TestGroup -HiddenFromAddressListsEnabled $true -WarningAction silentlyContinue
I bumped into same issue, the following command seems to do the job (PS 3.0) :
Stop-Service<or whatever command> $svc.Name -WarningPreference SilentlyContinue
Don't know exactly what difference it makes with -WarningAction, though.
Hope this helps !
If you invoke powershell versión 2.0, you should use "-WarningAction silentlyContinue". I was having the same issue, but in the script, if I invoke, for example "C:\Windows\System32\WindowsPowerShell\v1.0\powershell.exe -versión 2.0" , then you can use this parameter. I was trying on a scheduled task and using a ps1 script.
Try something like that:
PS C:\> {command} | Out-Null
For more Information: Technet: Out-Null