How to use Powershell for a custom check in Servers Alive In Servers Alive you can use an external program as a check. This external program could be your own Powershell script. This howto explains how to do this.


  1. Below is an example of a powershell script that checks if a certain registry value is still 1. You save this script as (example!) c:\data\myscripts\reg_check.ps1
    $RemoteServer=$args[0]
    $RefValue=1
    $Value=Invoke-Command -computername $RemoteServer -ScriptBlock {(get-itemproperty "HKLM:\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Microsoft Data Protection Manager\Agent\2.0").Forcefixup}
    if ($Waarde -eq $RefValue)
    {
    write-host "OK. Value ForceFixup is $Value. "
    exit 0
    }
    else
    {
    write-host "Error. Value ForceFixup is $Value, must be $RefValue."
    exit 1
    }
  2. In Servers Alive create a new entry and as check type select EXTERNAL (ERRORLEVEL)


  3. As commandline enter:
    powershell -NoProfile -ExecutionPolicy bypass -File "c:\data\myscripts\reg_check.ps1" %h
    and as rule you would set it to "is <> from 0"





  4. Woodstone would like to thank David White for creating the document on which this HOWTO is based.
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