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4 Replies Last post: May 20, 2008 7:03 AM by halr9000

VimInventory PSProvider stops working

May 15, 2008 1:14 PM

halr9000 303 posts since
Jun 7, 2007

I did this:

PS >$root = Get-Folder -NoRecursion
PS > New-PSDrive -Name VI -PSProvider VIMInventory -Root '\' -location $root
 
Name       Provider      Root                                  CurrentLocation
----       --------      ----                                  ---------------
VI         VimInventory  \ID\443@vcenter\Folder-group-d1                     \

That works fine. I was able to gci to see the datacenters. I then created a few new datacenters, and was able to see them as well. Then, a few minutes later the following happened:

PS > cd vi:
VI:\..\Folder-group-d1
PS > dir
Get-ChildItem : Cannot find path '\ID\443@vcenter\Folder-group-d1\..\Folder-gr
oup-d1' because it does not exist.
At line:1 char:4
+ dir <<<<

I removed the drive, then started the procedure over again, thinking some object got stale. Again, gci, or anything else I try fails.

Hal Rottenberg
Co-Host, PowerScripting Podcast (http://powerscripting.net)

Tags: new-psdrive, vimautomation, psprovider

Reply Re: VimInventory PSProvider stops working May 15, 2008 1:58 PM

LucD 308 posts since
Oct 31, 2005

Hal, I suppose you created the new datacenters from the VI client.
When I tried this in the past (with New-Item) I got a "...the provider does not support this operation" message.

Reply Re: VimInventory PSProvider stops working May 15, 2008 4:28 PM

in response to: LucD

halr9000 303 posts since
Jun 7, 2007

I actually had not gotten that far (was going to be the very next thing to try), but I'm not surprised. I just happened to think of new-datacenter first.

Hal Rottenberg
Co-Host, PowerScripting Podcast (http://powerscripting.net)

Reply Re: VimInventory PSProvider stops working May 20, 2008 4:34 AM

rusev 7 posts since
Mar 4, 2008

Hi Hal,

I am trying to investigate if this is a problem. Could you confirm this is correct:

1. You have created folder 'Folder-group-d1'
2. Then you changed the Current dir to this folder
3. Then may be you /or someone else/ accidently have deleted the folder
4. Now in the provider you are in folder 'Folder-group-d1' which does not exist.
5. In this situation you execute the command 'cd vi:' This command does not change current context, on the contrary the context stays the same - 'Folder-group-d1' which does not exist and thus the the error appears.
6. If the command to be executed was 'cd vi:\' then this would have triggered context change to root directory and no error would be observed because the root context is there.

Thank you,

Georgi Rusev

Reply Re: VimInventory PSProvider stops working May 20, 2008 7:03 AM

in response to: rusev

halr9000 303 posts since
Jun 7, 2007

Nope, and I tried it again with a newer build, same issue.

53# Get-Folder -NoRecursion | New-PSDrive vi -PSProvider viminventory -Root '/'
 
Name       Provider      Root                                                  CurrentLocation
----       --------      ----                                                  ---------------
vi         VimInventory  \ID\443@mojito\Folder-group-d1                                      \
 
 
54# cd vi:
vi:\..\Folder-group-d1
55# dir
Get-ChildItem : Cannot find path '\ID\443@mojito\Folder-group-d1\..\Folder-group-d1' because i
t does not exist.
At line:1 char:4
+ dir <<<<

Hal Rottenberg
Co-Host, PowerScripting Podcast (http://powerscripting.net)

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