[Xymon] Xymon Powershell Windows client

[zak.beck at accenture.com]

Hi Lukas

Thanks for reporting this.

I have committed a patch based on your information - please try that.

Regards

Zak 

-----Original Message-----
From: lukas.kohl at ergodirekt.de [mailto:lukas.kohl at ergodirekt.de] 
Sent: 18 February 2015 16:00
To: Beck, Zak
Cc: xymon at xymon.com
Subject: [Xymon] Xymon Powershell Windows client

Hello Zak,
today I recognized, that the msgs were sent broken:
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Full log eventlog_Security
 - 02/18/2015 13:54:50 - Microsoft-Windows-Security-Auditing -
 - 02/18/2015 13:54:50 - Microsoft-Windows-Security-Auditing - 

Full log eventlog_Application
 - 02/18/2015 13:54:51 - SceCli -
---

I managed to track the issue down to my CurrentCulture setting ($Host or
Get-Culture), which was de-DE at my Server. When I changed it to en-US,
everything seems to be correct again:
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Full log eventlog_Application
Information - 02/18/2015 16:04:57 - nssm - Started
C:\Windows\System32\WindowsPowerShell\v1.0\powershell.exe -ExecutionPolicy
RemoteSigned -NoLogo -NonInteractive -NoProfile -WindowStyle Hidden -File
"C:\Program Files\xymonps\xymonclient.ps1" for service XymonPSClient in
C:\Windows\System32\WindowsPowerShell\v1.0.
Information - 02/18/2015 16:04:56 - nssm - Service XymonPSClient received
START control, which will be handled.
Information - 02/18/2015 16:04:55 - nssm - Killing PID 5100 in process tree
of PID 5100 because service XymonPSClient is stopping.
Information - 02/18/2015 16:04:55 - nssm - Killing process tree of process
5100 for service XymonPSClient with exit code 0 Information - 02/18/2015
16:04:54 - nssm - Killing process
C:\Windows\System32\WindowsPowerShell\v1.0\powershell.exe because service
XymonPSClient is stopping.
Information - 02/18/2015 16:04:54 - nssm - Service XymonPSClient received
STOP control, which will be handled.
Information - 02/18/2015 15:31:58 - Microsoft-Windows-Security-SPP - The
Software Protection service has stopped.
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The Problem is, that the commands [string]$entry.LevelDisplayName and
[string]$entry.Message just return empty lines, when CurrentCulture is set
to anything different than en-US -->
http://powershell.com/cs/forums/p/14969/29273.aspx

The behaviour can be fixed, when surrounding the Get-WinEvent with a
different Culture (http://poshcode.org/2226):

function Set-Culture([System.Globalization.CultureInfo] $culture) {
	[System.Threading.Thread]::CurrentThread.CurrentUICulture = $culture
	[System.Threading.Thread]::CurrentThread.CurrentCulture = $culture }
$oldCulture = [System.Threading.Thread]::CurrentThread.CurrentUICulture
trap { Set-Culture $oldCulture }
Set-Culture en-US

$logentries = @(Get-WinEvent -ErrorAction:SilentlyContinue -FilterXML
$logFilterXML ` -MaxEvents $script:XymonSettings.MaxEvents)
		
Set-Culture $oldCulture

Aftwerwards, I can set the culture back to stock.

Kind regards,
Lukas
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