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Quincy Hsieh
Quincy Hsieh

Reputation: 304

Powershell equivalent to Azure CLI "az vm run-command invoke"?

I have searched around to execute commands on my Linux VM via Powershell on my Windows laptop. I found that there is Azure CLI command az vm run-command invoke to invoke a command.

All I found in powershell is Invoke-AzureRmVMRunCommand which takes a "script file path" (that means I have to find a way to upload the script file to VM first! what a hassle!) instead of putting direct commands.

Is there a az vm run-command invoke equivalent command in Powershell?

Thank you.

Upvotes: 0

Views: 3123

Answers (2)

Quincy Hsieh
Quincy Hsieh

Reputation: 304

As the result, I misunderstood the command Invoke-AzureRmVMRunCommand . In the command Invoke-AzureRmVMRunCommand the parameter ScriptPath is actually a local file -- not the file uploaded on VM.

So that what I can do is to put all my bash scripts in the file system_setup.sh at the same directory as my Powershell and call the following command :

Invoke-AzureRmVMRunCommand -ResourceGroupName $ResourceGroupName -Name $VMName -CommandId 'RunShellScript' -ScriptPath '.\system_setup.sh'

Then Azure will upload and execute this shell script on the remote Linux VM as user root (not the ssh user set for VM) under the directory /var/lib/waagent/run-command/download/0

Upvotes: 1

RuSs
RuSs

Reputation: 1812

Look at the PowerShell section of this Microsoft documentation page: https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/virtual-machines/windows/run-command#powershell

Here is a simple one I ran:

$resource_name="myVM"
$resource_group="myRG"
az vm run-command invoke -g "${resource_group}" -n "${resource_name}" --command-id 
RunPowerShellScript' --scripts "Write-Output 'testing russ'"

The output was:

{  "additionalProperties": {},  "endTime": "2018-07-25T00:09:42.479247+00:00",  error": null,  "name": "2a535b1a-e561-4a62-af43-c3c5c279bbcd",  "output": [    {      code": "ComponentStatus/StdOut/succeeded",      "displayStatus": "Provisioning ucceeded",      level": "Info",      "message": "testing russ"    },    {      "code": ComponentStatus/StdErr/succeeded",      "displayStatus": "Provisioning succeeded",      level": "Info",      "message": ""    }  ],  "startTime": "2018-07-5T00:09:09.605015+00:00",  "status": "Succeeded"}

Hope this helps.

Upvotes: 0

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