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Old 06-04-2008   #4 (permalink)
Oisin (x0n) Grehan [MVP]


 
 

Re: Asynchronous Processing

On Jun 4, 10:30*am, Ozone <rs_dov...@xxxxxx> wrote:
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> I wrote a script that will be used to upgrade the monitoring agents on
> our servers, and the one challenge that I have not been able to
> resolve is how to incorporate asynchronous processing into the
> solution. *Since this is a production script, I am using PS V1. *The
> script is written to take in a list of server, but the issue is that
> the script will not begin upgrading ServerB unless ServerA is complete
> AND no terminating errors were encountered while upgrading ServerA. *I
> have read the SDK regarding Runspaces, and i found the new-job.ps1,
> PSThreading, and AsyncLib.ps1 scripts, but I have not been able to put
> this together to create an asynchronous solution..
>
> At this time, we are opening multiple PowerShell consoles, and running
> the script against a single server, but I would like to automate this
> process. *We must be able to pass parameters and switches to the
> script, and have multiple runspaces executing at the same time. *So in
> short, I would like to do something like this:
>
> Pseudo Code:
> Import-Csv "inputlist.csv" | foreach-object {
> open a new runspace
> execute the script with the correct parameters and switches
> if ($?){Start another runspace and move to the next server}
> if $numberofrunspace -eq 5 {loop until $numberofrunspace -le 4}
>
> }
>
> As soon as the runspace starts successfully, I would like to start
> upgrading the next server in the input file. *This is where I keep
> running into the issue. *If I can't get the second runspace to start
> until the first loop is complete, I still do not have asynchronous
> processing. *Also, I would like to limit the number of runspaces to 5
> so we don't have a runspace open for every server in the input file.
>
> So in short, if anyone has figured out how to use runspaces *and/or a
> PS1 library to create an asynchronous processing solution, please let
> me know...
>
> Any help with this issue will be greatly appreciated.
> Ozone
Hi Ozone,

"Background jobs and PowerShell"
http://jtruher.spaces.live.com/blog/...628D!130.entry

(powershell 1.0)

- Oisin
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