scheduling_task

[jvm2016]

Hi Luc,

if yu could suggest something on following .

one task has been scheduled to run health check script which runs fine but not getting report in provided path .

[LucD]

One thing you could check is the account under which the scheduled script runs.
Does it have permission to write in that location?

For further analysis I would need to see how the scheduled task is defined and how the script writes the report.

[jvm2016]

$user = 'xyz\user1'

$pswd = 'password1'

$sAction = @{

   Execute = 'Powershell.exe'

   Argument = '-NoProfile -WindowStyle Hidden -File c:\HC\hc.ps1'

}

$action = New-ScheduledTaskAction @sAction

$sTrigger = @{

   Daily = $true

   At = '10:00am'

}

$trigger = New-ScheduledTaskTrigger @sTrigger

$sTask = @{

   Action = $action

   Trigger = $trigger

   User = $user

   Password = $pswd

   TaskName = 'vfalpp_HC'

   Description = 'vfalpp_hc'

   RunLevel = 'Highest'

}

$task = Register-ScheduledTask @sTask

above script is used to schedule task .

xyz\user1  is part of domain admins and domain users .

the script is health check powershelll script which runs fine in other clientaccounts .

[LucD]

That looks ok at first sight.

Can you add a Start-Transcript to the actual healthcheck script?

And perhaps add some debug lines with Write-Host in the script?

[jvm2016]

I am going to add

Start-Transcript -Path C:\HC\Transcript.log

at the very begining of the script however when i manullay run this script it works find and writing to c:\HC   folder.

[LucD]

There might be a prompt, or a missing permission, or ...
The transcript might show where the problem is located.

[jvm2016]

I am not getting anything in that path if i schedule it through task.

nither the ouputnot transcript.log .

[LucD]

Can you add a Write-Host with some text, after the Start-Transcript?
That way we are sure the script is actually producing any out for the transcript.

[jvm2016]

i am checking this.

[jvm2016]

for some reasons write-host is not being displayed on console though i can see  transcript.log

however i dont see any report in the specified path .

hope there is no background task being run to delete that file.

[LucD]

The Write-Host should indeed go to the transcript log.

Do a Get-ChildItem before and after you create the file, then we can at least be sure the file is created.

[jvm2016]

i am checking this .

[jvm2016]

well i have write-host just after start-transcript ...

and i can now see text being written on console..

however no report being generated .

[LucD]

I was mentioning getting a directory content listing of the target directory (where the report should go) with Get-ChildItem.

Just before and after you create the report.

[jvm2016]

I have already checked this there are only 2 files in that path .no htmlreport before and after .

[LucD]

Can you attach the script as a file?

I would like to do a test run in my lab.

[jvm2016]

i have attached the  beautiful script .

[LucD]

That seems to be a double-byte format.
Would it possible to attach it in a single-byte format?

[jvm2016]

if you could suhhest some article to send in single byte format as i have not done this in past..

[LucD]

Open the file in for example notepad, then make sure to save it in UTF-8 format.