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Windows PowerShell client v2.15

list Zak Beck
Tue, 3 May 2016 08:30:05 +0000
Message-Id: <user-209effe63f5b@xymon.invalid>

Hi

 
Thanks for the feedback :), pleased to see it works for you.

 
I wanted to see if I could get a PowerShell script to run without specify
HASH and HASHVALUE, the example in the documentation of
external:everyscan:sync:fsmon.vbs doesn't seem to work for .ps1 scripts, I
assume because you need to use the powershell.exe process to call the
script.

 
Correct - if there's no default handler, you need to specify the process.

 
I had a lot of trouble with the optional arguments and settled for
documenting the guaranteed way it works! I'll have another look and see if I
can make it clearer.

 
Longer term, I'd like to make the hashes mandatory - it makes sense when
deploying stuff to many servers to use them, in case the web server is
compromised or returning error pages.

 
Zak 

 
From: Brandon Dale [mailto:user-bf8ff8e1cedb@xymon.invalid] 
Sent: 30 April 2016 10:15
To: Beck, Zak <user-aada0fa38bf8@xymon.invalid>; xymon at xymon.com
Subject: RE: Windows PowerShell client v2.15

 
Hi Zak,

 
Just wanted to say the new externals functionality is awesome and makes
everything easier, I have converted one of my PowerShell scripts to write
the file in the expected format using the HASH and HASHVALUE and it all
works as expected - very cool.

 
I wanted to see if I could get a PowerShell script to run without specify
HASH and HASHVALUE, the example in the documentation of
external:everyscan:sync:fsmon.vbs doesn't seem to work for .ps1 scripts, I
assume because you need to use the powershell.exe process to call the
script.

 
In the documentation it says this "If PROCESS is used, HASH, HASHVALUE and
ARGUMENTS must be specified. " but I decided to try it anyway without
specifying them and it seems to work fine, here is an example:

 
external:everyscan:sync:test.ps1|powershell.exe|-file "{script}"

 
So the documentation doesn't seem to be completely clear on how you run a
PowerShell script without the HASH and HASHVALUE specified.

 
Regards,

 
Brandon.