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February 4, 2016 at 6:14 am #34834
Hi again guys,
I'm playing around with Get-Counter, but I've got really odd issue. If I try to run Get-Counter -ComputerName XXX to a Windows 7 client, i get
Get-Counter : Unable to connect to the specified computer or the computer is offline. At line:1 char:1 + Get-Counter -ComputerName 'MY-WIN7-CLIENT -Counter "\Memory\Available M ... + ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ + CategoryInfo : InvalidResult: (:) [Get-Counter], Exception + FullyQualifiedErrorId : CounterApiError,Microsoft.PowerShell.Commands.GetCounterCommand
The command I'm using is Get-Counter -ComputerName 'MY-WIN7-CIENT' -Counter "\Memory\Available MBytes" -Continuous | Out-GridView.
- I've made sure the machine is online & DNS resolves
- I've tried it from Windows Server 2012 R2 and from another Windows 7 client
- I can Enter-PSSession and run the command locally
- I can actually connect via the perfmon gui
- I have disabled firewalls on both my server and client to test
- I've upgraded the Windows 7 clients to WMF 4/Powershell 4.0
- I've tried using different counters and also removing -ComputerName parameter and directly entering it into -Counter "\\MY-WIN7-CLIENT\..."
- I've tried multiple Windows 7 clients and Server 2012 R2 servers
However...
- If I run the command on the Windows 7 client including the -ComputerName and use the computer's name, it still fails (Although, it seems a lot of people get this issue)
- I can successfully run the command from Server 2012 R2 to Server 2012 R2
- I can successfully run the command from Windows 7 to Server 2012 R2
- It fails if I run the command from Server 2012 R2 or Windows 7 to Windows 7
Anyone had any joy with this? Is this just a limitation of Windows 7?
Cheers.
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February 4, 2016 at 7:54 am #34852
It may just be a bug in how the command is dealing with it's internal remote connectivity. I'm not even sure what protocol it's trying to use – I'd have to either decompile the command or sniff the traffic.
Using Invoke-Command would be the best workaround I could offer.
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February 4, 2016 at 1:41 pm #34874
Heh, all the time I spent trying to troubleshoot it and I never thought of using Invoke-Command. Sometimes the best answers are the simplest ones. I was worried at first that Out-Grid would't work, but I cane pipe Invoke-Command { Yada yada } to it!
Thanks for the metaphorical slap around the head!
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