Configure PowerShell Remoting and Use Remote Commands

re: Configure PowerShell Remoting and Use Remote Commands

Peter Kelly — Tue, 17 Jul 2012 21:30:48 GMT

Found my answer. Something like this works:

Invoke-Command -ComputerName server123 -cred $Creds -Script { param($Module, $Build, $soapuiProject) c:\TestAutomation\RunSoapUIScript.bat $Module, $Build, $soapuiProject } -Args $Module, $Build, $soapuiProject

re: Configure PowerShell Remoting and Use Remote Commands

Peter Kelly — Tue, 17 Jul 2012 20:43:03 GMT

The following remote command with parameters works if I hard-code the parameters as strings. By work, I mean that the batch script on the remote server can see the parms.

Invoke-Command -ComputerName server123 -cred $Creds {param($p1, $p2, $p3) c:\RunScript.bat "abc" "def" "ghi"}

But if I turn the strings into variables($p1 $p2 $p3) then the remote batch script sees no parameters.

$p1="abc"

$p2="def"

$p3="ghi"

Invoke-Command -ComputerName server123 -cred $Creds {param($p1, $p2, $p3) c:\Script.bat $p1 $p2 $p3}

Any ideas???

Thanks,

Peter

re: Configure PowerShell Remoting and Use Remote Commands

jrv — Sat, 07 Jul 2012 00:14:00 GMT

HI Peter. I usually don't answer questions on Ed's forum but this one had just come up more than once in two days. Glad it helped and sorry for the typos. You can't edit after clicking 'Post' and I keep forgetting that.

re: Configure PowerShell Remoting and Use Remote Commands

pkinoc — Fri, 06 Jul 2012 23:06:50 GMT

Thanks JRV!! That was a big help!

Peter

re: Configure PowerShell Remoting and Use Remote Commands

jrv — Fri, 06 Jul 2012 02:42:16 GMT

@Peter - I already answered that. Taks the quotes off of the command.

Commands wil lnot execute is conteined in quotes. Quotes tell POwerSHell to jsut output the contents to teh shell as a string after evaluating any tokens in teh string. This:

$x='Some Text'

"Get-Process $x"

Will output:

Get-Process Some Text

Go to a prompt and try it.

Same thing inside of a script block.

$sb={"Get-Process $x"}

icm $sb

This will produce the same output.

Do not put quotes aroung executable statements at the commandline or in a scriptblock.

re: Configure PowerShell Remoting and Use Remote Commands

Peter Kelly — Thu, 05 Jul 2012 22:26:26 GMT

Mr. Scripting Guy,

When u run the following command:

Invoke-Command -cn syddc01 -Credential $cred -ScriptBlock {gps}

You get the output from the remote server.

When I do the same thing, regardless of the command or script that I try to run on the remote server, all I get is the command/script outputted and nothing else. Am I doing something wrong?

PS C:\Users\pekelly> Invoke-Command -ComputerName test003 -cred $cred -ScriptBlock {"gps"}

gps

PS C:\Users\pekelly>

PS C:\Users\pekelly> Invoke-Command -ComputerName test003 -cred $cred -ScriptBlock {"c:\test.bat"}

c:\test.bat

PS C:\Users\pekelly>

Thanks,

Pete

re: Configure PowerShell Remoting and Use Remote Commands

Doug Jones — Tue, 08 May 2012 23:52:36 GMT

Can you point me to a blog in which you have perhaps talked about using Powershell to retrieve some information from a Unix server?

re: Configure PowerShell Remoting and Use Remote Commands

Chris — Mon, 07 May 2012 14:40:21 GMT

I cant seem to find anything about enabling remote access on remote machines. If I want to enable\configure powershell remote access on remote machines, how would I do that (if I couldnt use group policy, but the machines are all on the same domain, and users are local administrators on their machines)?

re: Configure PowerShell Remoting and Use Remote Commands

Klaus Schulte — Wed, 16 Nov 2011 15:40:26 GMT

Dear Aleksandar,

you are right ... and I am right :-)

It depends on the meaning of the word "interactive", I'm afraid!

Well, if you enter a pssession, you are in fact "on/in the remote system" and you can work interactive ... true!

But you won't see a GUI on the remote machine!

That's what I meant because I have to start interactive (=~ GUI) programs remotely and it makes no sense to do so, without the graphical interface ... even if some of the programs would begin automatically to do their work, I couldn't see any progress and can't pause/resume - interact them without their controls :-(

Klaus.

re: Configure PowerShell Remoting and Use Remote Commands

Aleksandar Nikolić — Wed, 16 Nov 2011 14:56:24 GMT

PowerShell remoting supports an interactive remoting (so called 1:1 remoting) with the Enter-PSSession cmdlet. The Enter-PSSession cmdlet starts an interactive session with a single remote computer. During the session, the commands that you type run on the remote computer, just as though you were typing directly on the remote computer.