Citrix monitoring Broker Shared Desktop using PowerShell with Agent

MathieuJM

Hi,

We are monitoring a Citrix server using an agent.

We like to monitor the Broker Shared Desktop value, for this we have a small powershell script.

Our problem is that the script is executed as SYSTEM user that has no right to execute the desired command.

Basically the script is the following

add-pssnapin Citrix.Broker.Admin.V2
$maintenance=(BrokerSharedDesktop | select DNSName,InMaintenanceMode | Where {$_.InMaintenanceMode -like 'False'} | Measure-Object);

Write-Host "statistic:"$maintenance.count
Write-Host "Message:"$maintenance.count

the snapin is added successfully however the command is not executed.

a troubleshooting version

try {add-pssnapin Citrix.Broker.Admin.V2}catch {write-host "not added"}try {get-BrokerSharedDesktop}catch {    $ErrorMessage = $_.Exception.Messagewrite-host "$ErrorMessage"}

return the following message

Output: ==============================================
Insufficient administrative privilege 

so the SYSTEM user is able to add the snapin but to execute the command added.

How can i simply use other credential that i know are working fine ?

Cheers

xaturbatu

Did you try with the "Run the script under specified account:" checked + local host execution and add the credentials to the component?

We had it in the past and it was working like that. You might also want to try with invoke-command -computername computername -scriptblock { your script here } if it still doesn't take your proper credentials.