Configure PowerShell Health Probe

The PowerShell Probe executes an arbitrary PowerShell script. It offers carte blanche to check any aspect of system health or performance that may be needed, but it also requires expertise and experimentation to configure.

A PowerShell probe is automatically considered to have failed if any element of the script writes output on the error stream.

Whatever object is written last to the Output stream is assigned as the Value and considered by the Fail Rule. It is strongly recommended to return simple .NET types as the last element (such as boolean, int, or string). This will ensure that serialization errors don't occur in saving the health check.

The PowerShell probe supports remoting, but it is almost always simpler to create a local Panel Service installation.

Settings

Script – PowerShell script to execute

Use PS Remoting – Whether to consider the following fields to configure remoting

Host – Remote host

User & Password – Optional remoting credentials

Auth Mechanism – Remoting auth mechanism

URI – Remoting URI, default /wsman

Schema URI – Remoting schema URI, default http://schemas.microsoft.com/powershell/Microsoft.PowerShell

Use SSL – Whether to use SSL for remoting connection

Port – Remoting Port, default 5985

Operation Timeout Seconds – Remoting timeout, default 240

Max Redirect – Remoting redirect limit, default 3

Fail Rule – Rule to evaluate final object returned by probe