So, I finished a script which is going to be used for monitoring purposes with SCOM. It's quite simple; count files in a single folder and output the data to a text file which will then be read by SCOM. In a few cases, restart a service when a certain threshold
is exceeded.
Everything was tested and ready to be rolled out into production, when I found out that the particular server the script will be running on, only runs PowerShell 2.0 (see version numbers below). And 2.0 apparently does not support Get-ChildItem -File (the
-File parameter). So I don't know how to filter out the sub folders in the relevant folders where files need to be counted.
PS C:\Users\xxx> $PSVersionTable
Name Value
---- -----
CLRVersion 2.0.50727.4253
BuildVersion 6.0.6002.18111
PSVersion 2.0
WSManStackVersion 2.0
PSCompatibleVersions {1.0, 2.0}
SerializationVersion 1.1.0.1
PSRemotingProtocolVersion 2.1
Relevant part of the script:
[int]$threshold = 58
$fileCount = (Get-ChildItem $folder).Count
$filecount > $loggfil
if ($fileCount -gt $threshold){
Restart-Service servicename}
The problem with this is that I have no control over the amount of sub folders in the folder, and one of the scripts is supposed to be set up with a service restart when the threshold exceeds 0. So now I've had to add the amount of folders to the threshold,
which is definitely not best practice. If someone adds a new folder, then the particular service will be restarted every time the script runs.
Anyone know of a solution (in PS 2.0)?
