Archive for the ‘PowerShell’ Category
PowerShell Ping Test
Used this little script the other day for a basic network test to an access point I was testing. It just pings the device every 10 seconds (or whatever you set it at) and only outputs when there is an error and the time it occurred. Made for an easy way to leave this running over [...]
Using PowerShell to monitor a web server
A couple years ago I posted about a PowerShell script that would read in a web page. I used that to setup a basic web site test to go through a list of web sites/servers and make sure they were up and running and email an alert if they were down or the size of [...]
Monitoring the Event Log with PowerShell
One of my goals with learning more about PowerShell is to be able to monitor the event logs on servers and notify me via email when certain events happen. The system I’m looking to monitor are not part of a domain, are in remote locations on isolated networks. Some of the main things I’m looking [...]
PowerBoots for PowerShell
Came across a post today on an introduction to PowerBoots. WOW! I’m already thinking of more stuff I can automate to make my life (and some others in the office) a lot easier. Definitely need to learn more PowerShell & Boots!
Email a web page through PowerShell
On a hosted web based app, I needed to go to a page every day to kick off a process. Nothing needed to be done on the page other than to open it and it would do it’s daily stuff. Easy, but a pain to have to do every day. And even more so on [...]
PowerShell ExecutionPolicy
Was recently talking about starting a do it yourself system monitoring script using PowerShell and the one thing that I remember running into when I first started playing with PowerShell is the Execution Policy. In order to have scripts run correctly this may need to be changed (unless you’re signing your scripts.) Set-ExecutionPolicy RemoteSigned And [...]