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Blade Logic NSH Script Job (Execute Powershell through nexec)

Zach Born Jul 14, 2014 10:37 AM

Hello everyone.

I have created a powershell script that grabs RDP session information from the event viewer for windows 2012 servers. I want to execute this script remotely through blade logic eventually. It successfully runs via nexec....However, when I console in via putty-nsh and try to run:

nexec -e powershell.exe -inputformat NONE -file 'C:\Temp\PSM-HBL-WIN2K12-Enable.ps1'

it just hangs like usual and never completes. I have seen ALL of the posts on here saying different things about how to make it complete and not hang. Nothing has worked for me yet.

I even tried putting the powershell executable line in a bat file and nexec that through BL and it still hung.

I was curious to know if there was another option for me.

Any help is very much appreciated.

Thank you,

1. Re: Blade Logic NSH Script Job (Execute Powershell through nexec)

Jim Wilson Jul 14, 2014 10:40 AM (in response to Zach Born)

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2. Re: Blade Logic NSH Script Job (Execute Powershell through nexec)

Bill Robinson Jul 14, 2014 10:41 AM (in response to Zach Born)

Target agent version ?
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Zach Born Jul 14, 2014 10:48 AM (in response to Bill Robinson)

Target Agent Version: 8.2.01.273
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Bill Robinson Jul 14, 2014 11:04 AM (in response to Zach Born)

8.2.01 doesn’t support 2012. Does the same work in 2008 ?
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Zach Born Jul 14, 2014 12:18 PM (in response to Bill Robinson)

Right now I am unable to test this script execution on a 2008 server. I would have to request access to one which would probably take days... As far as what you said, why wouldn't this agent version support 2012? I am able to send things to it and run commands on it through the SAC?
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Bill Robinson Jul 14, 2014 12:20 PM (in response to Zach Born)

8.2.01 was not tested w/ 2012. It may work but not supported… specifically there were some issues w/ stdin on 2012 which may be related to your problem.
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Zach Born Jul 14, 2014 12:22 PM (in response to Bill Robinson)

Oh I see. Alright. Is there any update available right now to accommodate for WIN2K12 servers?
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Bill Robinson Jul 14, 2014 7:06 PM (in response to Zach Born)

actually - what's in the powershell script ?
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Zach Born Jul 15, 2014 7:15 AM (in response to Bill Robinson)

Get eventlog,
pulling out elements we want and then
ConvertTo-Csv
Out-File

Is that what you meant?
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Steffen Kreis Jul 15, 2014 9:11 AM (in response to Zach Born)

Hi,

i think Server 2012 Support was added in 8.3 directly, not sure if it was back-ported to 8.2...

Steffen
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Bill Robinson Jul 15, 2014 1:29 PM (in response to Zach Born)

Can you post the contents of the script? I can test it in house and see if I can reproduce the issue.
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Zach Born Jul 15, 2014 1:39 PM (in response to Bill Robinson)

Thanks Bill, I appreciate it.

[Power Shell] $Seclog = Get-EventLog -logname security -After (get-date).AddDays(-1).ToString( - Pastebin.com
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Zach Born Jul 18, 2014 7:28 AM (in response to Bill Robinson)

Bill,

Have you had any luck with it?

-ZB
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Gregory Rodrigues Jul 18, 2014 7:49 AM (in response to Zach Born)

This is a know issue where the console would hang when you use powershell commands.. AFAIK its a limitation on powershell side not BL.. you need to trigger the powershell within the cmd ... use something like:

nexec -i -e cmd /c "echo . | powershell C:/scripts/exchange_server_info.ps1"
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