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tekhie
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hardware monitoring with powershell

hi - i have been trying to get the hardware monitoring using powershell up and running as per this link ..... http://blogs.vmware.com/vipowershell/2009/03/monitoring-esx-hardware-with-powershell.html. i am running pshell/winrm from a 2k8 server and am authenticating against a vsphere Host. If i use the commands specified such as this ...Get-VMHostWSManInstance -VMHost (Get-VMHost) -class CIM_Fan -ignoreCertFailures ... i get the follwoing error messages ..

PS C:\Users\Administrator> Get-VMHostWSManInstance -VMHost (Get-VMHost) -class CIM_Fan -ignoreCertFailures

Get-WSManInstance : Access is denied.

At line:44 char:34

+ Get-WSManInstance <<<< -Authentication basic -ConnectionURI $uri -Credential $credential -Enumerate -Port 443 -UseS

SL -SessionOption $option -ResourceURI "$baseUrl/$class"

+ CategoryInfo : InvalidOperation: (Smiley Happy , UnauthorizedAccessException

+ FullyQualifiedErrorId : Exception,Microsoft.WSMan.Management.GetWSManInstanceCommand

Get-WSManInstance :

At line:44 char:34

+ Get-WSManInstance <<<< -Authentication basic -ConnectionURI $uri -Credential $credential -Enumerate -Port 443 -UseS

SL -SessionOption $option -ResourceURI "$baseUrl/$class"

+ CategoryInfo : InvalidOperation: (http://schemas....hema/2//CIM_Fan:Uri) , InvalidOperationExceptio

n

+ FullyQualifiedErrorId : WsManError,Microsoft.WSMan.Management.GetWSManInstanceCommand

can anyone shed any light on why this error is being generated ?

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LucD
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Was also playing with that, same problem.

Did you already see this What's Up Duck ?

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Blog: LucD notes

Twitter: lucd22


Blog: lucd.info  Twitter: @LucD22  Co-author PowerCLI Reference

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tekhie
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thanks for the info Luc. i can see the same error in my messages file when trying to run the script as mentioned in the post ...

openwsmand: pam_unix(openwsman:auth): bad username

So if i have followed the thread correctly its the \ in front of the username that is the issue. Is there a version of pshell that anyone has got this working on ?

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