PowerCli kicked off by APC PowerChute network shutdown, anybody doing that

[Brijn]

Hi,

Maybe not really a powerCLI question. but I'm hoping that people here have run into similar problems. I've spent a decent amount of time on writing a pretty advanced shutdown script. It uses SNMP to get the runtime from the UPS and does some migrating / shutdowns based on that info.

All works very nice when I run from the console. But when APC's PowerChute network shutdown kicks it off, it doesn't do anything.

An early line is:

1. Capture Output

Start-transcript $filename| Out-Null

And that file is created OK, but it's completely empty

Being a powershell newbie, I don't really know where to look. The script writes a lot of stuff to the console. When powershute starts the script I don't see a console. Could that cause problems?

TX!

Bas

[DSTAVERT]

You may need to use or create a user to run the Powerchute agent rather than the local system account. The local system account is limited.

[LucD]

Have a look at Keith Hill's Effective PowerShell Item 14: Capturing All Output from a Script post. It shows one method for capturing all output.

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