{"id":1301,"date":"2009-03-20T08:45:31","date_gmt":"2009-03-20T16:45:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.sapien.com\/blog\/2009\/03\/20\/status-indicators-with-powershell-and-polymonrt\/"},"modified":"2009-03-20T08:45:31","modified_gmt":"2009-03-20T16:45:31","slug":"status-indicators-with-powershell-and-polymonrt","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dev.sapien.com\/blog\/2009\/03\/20\/status-indicators-with-powershell-and-polymonrt\/","title":{"rendered":"Status Indicators with PowerShell and PolyMonRT"},"content":{"rendered":"

In my last Mr. Roboto<\/a> column<\/a>, I wrote about the open source project, PolyMonRT<\/a>. I recently suggested it to someone as a solution, especially because PolyMonRT supports PowerShell as a provider. My friend wanted to use the status light indicator to show when a particular service was running or not. Basically Green is good and Red is not. It tool a little fiddling on my part but I came up with the process.<\/p>\n

\"monitorproperties\"<\/a>First, add a new monitoring chart, selecting PowerShell and change the style to Status Light. Then select Properties. Give your monitor a name. Enable both Thresholds. Set the first threshhold to a value of 0 and change the color to Red. Set the second threshold to 1 and change its color to Green. Adjust the refresh intervals as needed.<\/p>\n

Next, click the Monitoring tab. Select PowerShelll from the dropdown. PolymonRT can use any value that you can derive from PowerShell. All you have to do assign the value to $PolyMonRT.Counter. Insert code like this: <\/p>\n

$computer=”chaos”
$service=”spooler”
$svc=get-wmiobject win32_service -filter “name=’$service'” -computer $computer
if ($svc.state -eq “Running”) {
$polymonRT.counter=1
}
else {
$polymonRT.counter=0
}<\/font><\/p>\n

Click OK and start the monitor. You should get a result like this:<\/p>\n

\"greenlight\"<\/a><\/p>\n

If the service stops the light will turn red. Personally, I would use this counter as an on\/off display so something like this works just fine for me.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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