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Calling PowerCLI script from a batch file

ccatano2000 — Fri, 06 May 2011 14:33:39 GMT

Hi all,

I am fairly new to using PowerCLI, but have already seen the benefits of using it to help manage and administer a large infrastructure, we have about 50 hosts using esx4i, and it has been very useful. I have a problem though in trying to run a health check, I want to create a batch file that calls a .ps1 script and then schedule it as a task... However, here is the batch file code :

C:\WINDOWS\system32\windowspowershell\v1.0\powershell.exe -PSConsoleFile "C:\Program Files\VMware\Infrastructure\vSphere PowerCLI\vim.psc1" -command "&{c:\scripts\myscript.ps1}"

it comes up with this in the cmd prompt after running the batch file :

Please specify a VI Server name eg....
powershell.exe vCheck.ps1 MyvCenter

However I have the Connect-Viserver connection code in the myscript.ps1 ... The script runs great from PowerCLI , does anyone know what I am missing ? Thanks for your help....any input would be appreciated.

chris

Re: Calling PowerCLI script from a batch file

mcpsurfer — Fri, 08 Jul 2011 19:01:57 GMT

did u try executing same command manually from command prompt? if u still get same error then it may be some offending missed quote characters. make sure that if there is a space in your command it should be properly enclosed in the quotes.

Re: Calling PowerCLI script from a batch file

giu386 — Tue, 19 May 2020 16:32:55 GMT

Work for me:

Powershell.exe -psc "C:\Program Files (x86)\VMware\Infrastructure\vSphere PowerCLI\vim.psc1" -c ". \"C:\Program Files (x86)\VMware\Infrastructure\vSphere PowerCLI\Scripts\Initialize-PowerCLIEnvironment.ps1\";C:\Scripts\MyScript.ps1"