Why Should I Learn PowerShell? Real World Example Saves the Day!

re: Why Should I Learn PowerShell? Real World Example Saves the Day!

rk — Mon, 01 Apr 2013 14:32:59 GMT

Sorry for the necropost, but I was validating this for a list of my servers and logged into one that this script was telling me was not running RSA. When I logged in, I saw that it was running RSA. Is there a better way?

re: Why Should I Learn PowerShell? Real World Example Saves the Day!

troth — Mon, 30 Jan 2012 14:54:05 GMT

@jrv why not?

re: Why Should I Learn PowerShell? Real World Example Saves the Day!

jrv — Mon, 30 Jan 2012 00:07:59 GMT

@jeffery - I don't think so.

re: Why Should I Learn PowerShell? Real World Example Saves the Day!

Jeffrey Snover — Sun, 29 Jan 2012 23:10:37 GMT

Cool stuff!

If you give GET-WMIObject a set of servers to work against, it will do so concurrently making your script run MUCH faster.

Try this:

$Servers = Get-Content "C:\Temp\MyServers.txt"

Foreach ($Service in Get-WMIobject win32_service -computername $Servers -Filter "Name = 'OASVC_Local'")

{

If ($Service.state -eq "running")

{

Write-Output "RSA is Running for $Server" | out-file -append C:\Temp\RSA.txt

Write-Host "RSA is Running for $Server"

} else

{

Write-Output "RSA is NOT Running for $Server" | out-file -append C:\Temp\RSA.txt

Write-Host "RSA is NOT Running for $Server" -BackgroundColor red

}

re: Why Should I Learn PowerShell? Real World Example Saves the Day!

Josh Atwell — Sat, 28 Jan 2012 16:02:54 GMT

Great post Tim and wonderful real world example of how PowerShell comes into play on a regular basis. It is also a great example of the quality of the PowerShell community! Well done Claus and thanks for sharing your story Tim!