Powershell Monitor Driving Me Crazy

t0ta11ed74

I have the following code to simply check if an Exchange database has been dismounted. It works fine running from the Orion server, but when I test this as a Powershell Monitor, it always says nothing is dismounted. I've tried several things, but I'm baffled. I'm even just pulling anything that isn't mounted. I've tried different variations, but it always returns "No dismounts" even though there is a test db that IS dismounted. Again, running the code on the Orion server in ISE works fine.

add-pssnapin Microsoft.Exchange.Management.PowerShell.E2010

$status = Get-MailboxDatabase -Server $args[0] -Status | where {$_.Mounted -eq $false}

if ($status) {

$name = $status.name

write-host "Message: $name is dismounted"

write-host "Statistic: 1"

exit 1;

}

if (!$status) {

write-host "Message: No dismounts"

write-host "Statistic: 0"

exit 0;

}

t0ta11ed74

This was just a problem with script logic. I took a look at another Exchange powershell script and this is the working code. Will show as down if any database is dismounted;

$out = $null

$out = Invoke-Command -ArgumentList $args -ConfigurationName "Microsoft.Exchange" -ConnectionUri "https://$args/PowerShell/" -Credential $Credential -ScriptBlock {

    get-mailboxdatabase -server $args.get(0) -status;

  }

  if ($out -is [system.array]) {

    $c = ($out | Measure-Object).Count;

    for ($i=0;$i -lt $c;$i++) {

      if ($out[$i].Mounted -eq $False) {

        $count++;

        $db_names += "<br/>";

        $db_names += $out[$i].Name;

      $db_names += ";"

      Write-Host "Message: Dismounted databases: $db_names";

      Write-Host "Statistic: $count";

      exit 1;

      }

    }

  }

  if ($out -isnot [system.array]) {

    if ($out.Mounted -eq $False) {

      Write-Host Message: Dismounted databases: $out.name;

      Write-Host "Statistic: 0";

      exit 1;

      }

    }

  Write-Host "Message: No dismounted databases found.";

  Write-Host "Statistic: 0";

  exit 0;