Powershell Item not working

[acarnahan]

I'm trying to create an Item that will pull in the number of minutes a process is running, then i can create a trigger if it is running over 8min. The command I use below works if i just paste the powershell part on the system, but when i run it from Zabbix, i get the error just below the command.

system.run[powershell.exe -NoLogo "((New-TimeSpan -Start (Get-Process -Name cmd).StartTime)).TotalMinutes"]


New-TimeSpan : Cannot convert 'System.Object[]' to the type 'System.DateTime' required by parameter 'Start'. Specified
method is not supported.
At line:1 char:23
+ ((New-TimeSpan -Start (Get-Process -Name cmd).StartTime)).TotalMinute ...
+ ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
+ CategoryInfo : InvalidArgument: ( [New-TimeSpan], ParameterBindingException
+ FullyQualifiedErrorId : CannotConvertArgument,Microsoft.PowerShell.Command s.NewTimeSpanCommand


Any thoughts?

[acarnahan]

Ok, i got the result i wanted but had to go to vbscript to get it. In case it helps anyone else.


My Item:
system.run[cscript.exe //Nologo C:\scripts\CheckCmdRuntime.vbs"]

My Trigger:

Problem: last(/HOSTNAME.DOMAIN/system.run[cscript.exe //Nologo C:\scripts\CheckCmdRuntime.vbs"])="True" Recovery: last(/HOSTNAME.DOMAIN/system.run[cscript.exe //Nologo C:\scripts\CheckCmdRuntime.vbs"])=""

CheckCmdRuntime.vbs is this:

Function WMIDateStringToDate(dtmStart)
WMIDateStringToDate = CDate(Mid(dtmStart, 5, 2) & "/" & Mid(dtmStart, 7, 2) & "/" & Left(dtmStart, 4) & " " & Mid (dtmStart, 9, 2) & ":" & Mid(dtmStart, 11, 2) & ":" & Mid(dtmStart, 13, 2))
End Function


strComputer = "VIDEO"
Set objWMIService = GetObject("winmgmts:\" & strComputer & "\root\cimv2")
Set colProcessList = objWMIService.ExecQuery("SELECT * FROM Win32_Process WHERE Name like 'cmd.exe'")
For Each objProcess in colProcessList
' Wscript.Echo "Process\ID: " & objProcess.Name & " \ " & objProcess.ProcessID
' Wscript.Echo "CreationDate: " & objProcess.CreationDate
Set dateTime = CreateObject("WbemScripting.SWbemDateTime")
dateTime.SetVarDate(now())
' wscript.echo "DateTime: " & dateTime
procTime = ObjProcess.CreationDate
' wscript.echo procTime
strReturn = WMIDateStringToDate(procTime)
ltDateTime = cdate(dateTime.GetVarDate (true))
' wscript.echo ltDateTime
' wscript.echo strReturn
result = DateDiff("n", strReturn, ltDateTime)
'wscript.echo result


If result >= 8 Then
wscript.echo "True"
Else
' wscript.echo "False"
End If

Next

[tim.mooney]

If find it's often possible to avoid quoting issues by defining a UserParameter instead of using system.run[] directly. My guess is your first attempt with PowerShell would have been possible using that method.