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Windows PowerShell monitor component not working

I have this powershell script that checks the age of a folder on one of our VMs:

If the age of the folder goes 30 minutes without being updated, it should return a "1".

$Folder = "PATH GOES HERE"[datetime]$nowTime = Get-Date$parentAge = Get-ItemProperty -Path $folder | select lastwritetime -ExpandProperty lastwritetime$thirtyMinutes = (get-date).AddMinutes(-30)if ($parentAge -le $thirtyMinutes) {#transfers hung upWrite-Host 'Statistic.Result: 1'}elseIf($parentAge -ge $thirtyMinutes) {#successful transferswrite-host 'Statistic.Result: 0'}else {Write-Host 'Statistic.Result: 2'}

However, it never gets passed the first if statement. I can run it on my own machine and it works.

Things I have tried:

Ran the script on my main poller under our Orion Service Account (has correct privileges) - this works

ran the script under multiple accounts that have correct privileges (including my own domain) - doesn't work

anyone know what's going on here? any help is greatly appreciated.

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bobmarley

Assuming your running it against another node you probably don't have the credentials set up correctly to run against the remote machine.

I got around it by adding my Orion server as a local administrator on the REMOTE computer. Need to pick Object Type choose Computers and add your Orion server as domain\orionservername

rmullal

I have ran it as the account i'm using on multiple machines and it works. Also, i wouldn't expect it to get to the first if statement if permissions were the issue, wouldn't it fail before it gets to that?

bobmarley

I would try the permissions thing I suggested, it only takes a second to prove out. SAM runs scrips as a system account from your Orion server I believe. I had a similar issue I was troubleshooting and that was how I got it to work.

If you dig around in Thwack there are some threads on how to imbed the credentials in the script also.

bobmarley

Here is some other things to try Re: Using PowerShell scripts without PowerShell Remoting enabled

rmullal

Thanks i'll try passing in the credentials. However, the service account is already a local admin on the remote machine

rmullal

bobmarley passing the credentials worked! thank you.