Executing External Powershell with Service Account

I'm trying to get an Alert to kick off various tasks against the offender machines. Right now I have a powershell script that does exactly what I need. But whenever Solarwinds executes it, it fails due to permissions and the Transcript shows it as the Contoso/SYSTEM user running the script. After some digging, I found that I needed to edit the service Logon, which I did to no avail. I tried both the SolarWinds Alerting Engine and the SolarWinds Alerting Service V2, both are using the correct Service account that should have permissions to do the tasks in the powershell script. But when it runs, it still shows the Runas user being the SYSTEM. Has anyone else run into this?

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AlexSoul

I tend to often have some sort of issues with Powershell - permissions, accounts, settings, lack of my personal experience... you name them. I have found solution recently of wrapping Powershell scripts around VBScript which works fab for me 100% of the time - give it a try: Re: PowerShell/PowerCLI Monitor Problem

eandrus

I'm not versed with VB at all, unfortunately. And my script is so close to working, I just need it to run under the SolarWinds service account instead of the local SYSTEM.

aLTeReGo

Did you define the user account to run the alert under?
Does the PowerShell script attempt to access a remote host or network resource (E.G. not on the Orions server itself)?
1. If so, does the user account specified have permissions to login to the Orion server?
2. Does it have permission to access the remote host?
Has WinRM been configured on the Orion server and remote host?
Have you run the script on the Orion server as that user, and does it work?

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