ActiveXperts Network Monitor KB - Monitoring Powershell
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'Monitoring Powershell' Knowledge Base Articles
| Q6960010 | When I run a Powershell-based check. I get an error: "Execution of PowerShell scripts is disabled on this system." |
| You must allow Powershell scripting on the machine that has ActiveXperts Network Monitor running. Read more on allowing Powershell scripting here:activexperts.com/support/network-monitor/online/powershell/ Please note that allowing Powershell on 32-bit operating systems is different from 64 ... | |
| Q6960020 | We use PowerShell scripts to monitor several servers. Is there a way to see how the PowerShell interpreter is invoked by the Network Monitor Engine? |
| You can turn on PowerShell logging for the Network Monitor Engine. To do so, enter a valid file name in the following registry entries (there's a registry entry for each PowerShell thread/subprocess): HKLM\Software\ActiveXperts\Network Monitor\Server\Trace\ThreadPowerShell000 HKLM\Software ... | |
| Q6960030 | When a PowerShell is executed by ActiveXperts Network Monitor, I get the following error: "The term 'ps1' is not recognized as the name of a cmdlet, function, script file, or operable program. Check the spelling of the name, or if a path was included, verify that the path is correct and try again". What is the problem? |
| Under the hood, ActiveXperts executes all PowerShell checks by executing a command like this: cmd /q /c "C:\Windows\System32\WindowsPowerShell\v1.0\PowerShell.exe "C:\PROGRA~1\ACTIVE~1\NETWOR~1\scripts\MONITO~2\CPU.PS1" As you can see, a 8dot3 naming convention is used for powershell files ... | |
| Q6960040 | I get the message "Timeout occurred when executing command" in my PowerShell check. What's the reason? |
| A possible reason is that one of the include files (activexperts.ps1, activexperts-wmi-dcom.ps1, or activexperts-wmi-winrm.ps1) is blocked by Microsoft. Or the script (e.g. Cpu-wmi-winrm.ps1) itself is blocked. The best way to check this is to run the script from the command line. If t ... |
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