Hi,

Is there a timeout facility when doing commands like get-wmiobject.
Sometimes when running scripts on hosts, I want it to timeout after 10
seconds. I'm looking for something similar to the "expect" timeout.

Thanks in advance,

Get-WMIObject doesn't have a timeout facility. I am not aware of a timeout
facility within PowerShell
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"Frank" wrote:

> Hi,
>
> Is there a timeout facility when doing commands like get-wmiobject.
> Sometimes when running scripts on hosts, I want it to timeout after 10
> seconds. I'm looking for something similar to the "expect" timeout.
>
> Thanks in advance,
>
>

> Hi,
>
> Is there a timeout facility when doing commands like get-wmiobject.
> Sometimes when running scripts on hosts, I want it to timeout after 10
> seconds. I'm looking for something similar to the "expect" timeout.
>
> Thanks in advance,

You could play with new-timespan (and properties ... ,seconds,
milliseconds, ...)

This one stops after 5 seconds :

#---8<---
$exitafter=5000 #milliseconds
$start=(get-date)
$startms=(new-timespan $start).TotalMilliSeconds
do{
if(
(new-timespan $start).TotalMilliSeconds-$startm `
-ge `
$exitafter-$interval
)
{break} #or {exit}
###CODE###
}while($true)
#---8<---

Regards,

--
Jean - JMST
Belgium

> This one stops after 5 seconds :

Sorry, this code instead :

#---8<---
$exitafter=5000 #milliseconds
$start=(get-date)
do{
if(
(new-timespan $start).TotalMilliSeconds `
-ge `
$exitafter
)
{break} #or {exit}
###CODE###
}while($true)
#---8<---


Regards,

--
Jean - JMST
Belgium

I think you need to check Don Jones's "IsManageable" function.
http://blog.sapien.com/current/2007/...anageable.html


Shay
http://scriptolog.blogspot.com



>> Hi,
>>
>> Is there a timeout facility when doing commands like get-wmiobject.
>> Sometimes when running scripts on hosts, I want it to timeout after
>> 10 seconds. I'm looking for something similar to the "expect"
>> timeout.
>>
>> Thanks in advance,
>>
> You could play with new-timespan (and properties ... ,seconds,
> milliseconds, ...)
>
> This one stops after 5 seconds :
>
> #---8<---
> $exitafter=5000 #milliseconds
> $start=(get-date)
> $startms=(new-timespan $start).TotalMilliSeconds
> do{
> if(
> (new-timespan $start).TotalMilliSeconds-$startm `
> -ge `
> $exitafter-$interval
> )
> {break} #or {exit}
> ###CODE###
> }while($true)
> #---8<---
>
> Regards,
>

For some reason, this still didn't work. I replaced ###CODE### with "gwmi
win32_logicaldisk -computer test_cluster". It still hangs forever. This
host is the "non-active" cluster.

Thanks,


"Jean" wrote:

> > This one stops after 5 seconds :
>
> Sorry, this code instead :
>
> #---8<---
> $exitafter=5000 #milliseconds
> $start=(get-date)
> do{
> if(
> (new-timespan $start).TotalMilliSeconds `
> -ge `
> $exitafter
> )
> {break} #or {exit}
> ###CODE###
> }while($true)
> #---8<---
>
>
> Regards,
>
> --
> Jean - JMST
> Belgium
>
>
>

> For some reason, this still didn't work. I replaced ###CODE### with "gwmi
> win32_logicaldisk -computer test_cluster". It still hangs forever. This
> host is the "non-active" cluster.

I'd extracted the code from a bigger project, so what is needed is to
break (or exit) at the end of the code otherwize you go in an infinite
loop.

Here is an "example" :

#---8<---
$exitafter=10000
$dir=get-wmiobject win32_Directory
$start=get-date
do{
$dir|%{
$_.Name
if(
(new-timespan $start).TotalMilliSeconds `
-ge `
$exitafter
)
{'***10 SECONDS ELAPSED***';break}
}
'***SCRIPT END***'
break
}while($true)
#---8<---


But i'm not sure this could help you as if I understand well you need
an asynchronous stuff (or an event) and that, just now, I don't know
how to do (and even if it's possible or exists).

Regards,

--
Jean - JMST
Belgium

> But i'm not sure this could help you as if I understand well you need an
> asynchronous stuff (or an event) and that, just now, I don't know how to do
> (and even if it's possible or exists).

Perhaps some informations here (i haven't tested):

http://www.scriptinganswers.com/foru...ts.asp?TID=956

Regards,

--
Jean - JMST
Belgium