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</o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]--></head><body lang=EN-GB link="#0563C1" vlink="#954F72"><div class=WordSection1><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:blue'>Hi<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:blue'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:blue'>Thanks for the feedback </span><span style='font-family:Wingdings;color:blue'>J</span><span style='color:blue'>, pleased to see it works for you.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:blue'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-AU>I wanted to see if I could get a PowerShell script to run without specify HASH and HASHVALUE, the example in the documentation of external:everyscan:sync:fsmon.vbs doesn’t seem to work for .ps1 scripts, I assume because you need to use the powershell.exe process to call the script.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:blue'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:blue'>Correct – if there's no default handler, you need to specify the process.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:blue'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:blue'>I had a lot of trouble with the optional arguments and settled for documenting the guaranteed way it works! I'll have another look and see if I can make it clearer.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:blue'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:blue'>Longer term, I'd like to make the hashes mandatory – it makes sense when deploying stuff to many servers to use them, in case the web server is compromised or returning error pages.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:blue'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:blue;mso-fareast-language:EN-GB'>Zak </span><span style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:blue;mso-fareast-language:EN-GB'><o:p></o:p></span></p></div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:blue'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><div><div style='border:none;border-top:solid #E1E1E1 1.0pt;padding:3.0pt 0cm 0cm 0cm'><p class=MsoNormal><b><span lang=EN-US style='mso-fareast-language:EN-GB'>From:</span></b><span lang=EN-US style='mso-fareast-language:EN-GB'> Brandon Dale [mailto:BDale@kitchengroup.com.au] <br><b>Sent:</b> 30 April 2016 10:15<br><b>To:</b> Beck, Zak <zak.beck@accenture.com>; xymon@xymon.com<br><b>Subject:</b> RE: Windows PowerShell client v2.15<o:p></o:p></span></p></div></div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-AU>Hi Zak,<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-AU><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-AU>Just wanted to say the new externals functionality is awesome and makes everything easier, I have converted one of my PowerShell scripts to write the file in the expected format using the HASH and HASHVALUE and it all works as expected – very cool.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-AU><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-AU>I wanted to see if I could get a PowerShell script to run without specify HASH and HASHVALUE, the example in the documentation of external:everyscan:sync:fsmon.vbs doesn’t seem to work for .ps1 scripts, I assume because you need to use the powershell.exe process to call the script.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-AU><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-AU>In the documentation it says this “If PROCESS is used, HASH, HASHVALUE and ARGUMENTS must be specified. “ but I decided to try it anyway without specifying them and it seems to work fine, here is an example:<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-AU><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-AU>external:everyscan:sync:test.ps1|powershell.exe|-file "{script}"<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-AU><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-AU>So the documentation doesn’t seem to be completely clear on how you run a PowerShell script without the HASH and HASHVALUE specified.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-AU><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-AU>Regards,<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-AU><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-AU>Brandon.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-AU><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-AU><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-AU><o:p> </o:p></span></p></div></body></html>