Enter-pssession closing issue

[wgtmpeters]

I am having a great difficulty getting the following working. Have tried with and without remotemode, and it seems that i need it with otherwise each call takes the maxWait amount of time to finish.

I also need 2 exit statements otherwise the powershell.Close throws a TimeOut. So it seems that my commands somehow open 2 extra powershell shells? I understand 1 extra as the enter-pssession start a new shell remotely.

The first powerShell.configuration(config).executeCommand("exit"); always takes the maxWait time to finish.

	@Test
	public void testConcreteExecute_Remote() {
		PowerShell powerShell = null;
		PowerShellResponse response = null;
		Map<String, String> config = new HashMap<String, String>();
		config.put("remoteMode", "true");
		config.put("maxWait", "50000");
		try {
			powerShell = PowerShell.openSession();
			
			response = powerShell.configuration(config).executeCommand("$password = ConvertTo-SecureString \"password\" -AsPlainText -Force");
			response = powerShell.configuration(config).executeCommand("$cred= New-Object System.Management.Automation.PSCredential (\"Administrator\", $password)");
			response = powerShell.configuration(config).executeCommand("Enter-pssession 192.168.1.1 -Credential $cred");
			System.out.println("PSsession:" + response.getCommandOutput());
			//Execute another command in the same PowerShell session
			response = powerShell.configuration(config).executeCommand("Get-WmiObject Win32_BIOS");
		
			powerShell.configuration(config).executeCommand("exit");
			powerShell.configuration(config).executeCommand("exit");
			System.out.println("BIOS information:" + response.getCommandOutput());
			Assert.assertEquals(false, response.isError());
		} catch (PowerShellNotAvailableException ex) {
			System.err.println("PowerShell not running on remote system" + ex);
		} finally {
			if (powerShell != null) {
				powerShell.close();
			}
		}
	}

[profesorfalken]

Hello,

Your use case is quite in the edge!

You have no need to force the configuration each time. It should be ok if you perform a:

powerShell = PowerShell.config(config).openSession();

In your example you mix remote and non remote calls which I think it is not a good idea. Do you have the same problem if you call the Get-WmiObject Win32_BIOS with remoteMode=false?

The double exit is really weird, but I do not have right now the means to reproduce it. Could you debug it to see what is happening?

Best regards

[wgtmpeters]

I am currently trying without opensession but with only direct Invoke-commands .This seems to be much more stable. As in no extra exit statements are needed. Currently i use executeScript with a small fix which i will upload later (handling of output from script without newline ). I am able to execute remotely with arguments and/or parameters. One bug i need to solve though which is remotemode not handling errors correctly. The normal stream exits before the error stream but the errorstream does give output.