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Noam
Noam

Reputation: 1804

Run several "long" scripts with remote Powershell

I have 3 Powershell scripts: A.ps1, B.ps1, RunAB.ps1.

A.ps1 and B.ps1 are on the same machine, RunAB.ps1 is on a different machine.

I want RunAB.ps1 to run. via remote powershell, A and B at the same time (i.e, in parallel).

Both A and B take about 2-3 days to finish run.

In order to do this, I wrote RunAB.ps1 (relevant lines only):

Invoke-Command -ComputerName $physical_server_ip -ScriptBlock {Set-Location "C:\Test"; Powershell.exe -File "A.ps1"} -Credential $physical_credential -AsJob

Invoke-Command -ComputerName $physical_server_ip -ScriptBlock {Set-Location "C:\Test"; Powershell.exe -File "B.ps1"} -Credential $physical_credential -AsJob

This runs fine at the beginning, but after about 2 hours, the powershell processes of both A and B on remote machine are terminated (they didn't finish)...

If I remove the AsJob from second Invoke-Command (what causes RunAB.ps1 to wait at this command) then it seems to fix the issue - A and B keep on running on remote machine, however I don't want RunAB.ps1 to wait..

What is the correct way of doing what I want?

Thanks

Upvotes: 0

Views: 177

Answers (1)

BenH
BenH

Reputation: 10044

You'll need to extend the Idle Timeouts of the PSSession you are connecting to. The Default is 7200000 which is 2 hours

To see the current timeout values:

Get-PSSessionConfiguration | Select-Object Name, *Timeout*

To set the timeout value:

Invoke-Command -ComputerName $physical_server_ip -SessionOption {New-PSSessionOption -IdleTimeout XXXXXXX} ...
#Where XXXXXX is the value in milliseconds less than the Max timeout.

Upvotes: 2

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