Hi, i hope someone can help me... I'm working for now 2 weeks on a sensor, that shows me how old a backup is. The result from the PowerShell script is:

            <prtg>
            <result>
            <channel>Backup Job 1</channel>
            <value>21</value>
            </result>
            <result>
            <channel>Backup Job 2</channel>
            <value>248</value>
            </result>
            <result>
            <channel>Backup Job 3</channel>
            <value>18</value>
            </result>
            </prtg>

The scipt worked verry well, but when i create a custom XML sensor the values are wrong. In this case:

Backup Job 1 = 84
Backup Job 2 = 384	
Backup Job 3 = 194

The code is very simple: 

$BackupJob1 = "Backup Job 1"
$LastBackup1 = (Get-ChildItem 'backups:\Backup Job 1').LastWriteTime | Sort-Object LastWriteTime | Select-Object -Last 1
$BackupAge1 =  (Get-Date) - $LastBackupJonas | Select-Object -Property Days | Format-Wide | Out-String
$BackupAge1 = $BackupAge1.Trim()
$BackupAge1 = $BackupAge1.ToDecimal($null)

The integer that comes out of the Sript is right, but PRTG shows a different one... I don't know why and i can't see a scheme on it.

I hope some one can help me, I'm despairing.

Greetings from Germany

Article Comments

Hi there,

I'll send you an email shortly about sending us logs from the sensor itself.

Kind regards,

Erhard


Sep, 2019 - Permalink

After a lot of Troubleshooting and logging i found the Problem in PowerShell itself. When i run the script in ISE the sort function works fine. When i run the script direktly, like PRTG does, the sort function don't include all objects. This is why the script gave out a wrong value. I think the sort function had a Problem with the pipelining…

I wrote a new script without integrating the sort funktion in the pipeline and now it works.

Thanks for the food for thought, Mr. Mikulik.

I hope i could help someone with this entry.

Greetings from Germany


Oct, 2019 - Permalink

Thanks for sharing the outcome, Mr. Hagendorf :)


Oct, 2019 - Permalink