Data Protection Manager ForceFree.ps1 script error

[Fazza]

Currently using SCDPM 2012 SP1 on a Server 2012 server.

 

I've just added a Quantum Tapeload to the server which will be using tapes that already have data on them.

 

To mark them as free you're supposed to use the script found here: MS Technet

 

When running the script it prompts for the server name, library name and tape location. After entering this in we get the following error:

 

Connect-DPMServer : The term 'Connect-DPMServer' is not recognized as the name of a cmdlet, function, script file, or

operable program. Check the spelling of the name, or if a path was included, verify that the path is correct and try

again.

At C:\ForceFree.ps1:43 char:7

+ if (!(Connect-DPMServer $DPMServerName))

+ ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

+ CategoryInfo : ObjectNotFound: (Connect-DPMServer:String) [], CommandNotFoundException

+ FullyQualifiedErrorId : CommandNotFoundException

 

Get-DPMLibrary : The term 'Get-DPMLibrary' is not recognized as the name of a cmdlet, function, script file, or

operable program. Check the spelling of the name, or if a path was included, verify that the path is correct and try

again.

At C:\ForceFree.ps1:49 char:12

+ $library = Get-DPMLibrary $DPMServerName | where {$_.UserFriendlyName -eq $Libra ...

+ ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

+ CategoryInfo : ObjectNotFound: (Get-DPMLibrary:String) [], CommandNotFoundException

+ FullyQualifiedErrorId : CommandNotFoundException

 

C:\ForceFree.ps1 : Failed to find library with user friendly name kripke

At line:1 char:1

+ ./forcefree

+ ~~~~~~~~~~~

+ CategoryInfo : NotSpecified: ( [Write-Error], WriteErrorException

+ FullyQualifiedErrorId : Microsoft.PowerShell.Commands.WriteErrorException,ForceFree.ps1

 

 

I'm not a PowerShell expert (yet) so need some help with this error please?!

 

Thanks.

[Fazza]

It seems to be an ID ten T error (change the ten to 10) or a PICNIC error on this occasion.

 

I was running it in a standard PowerShell window and not the DPM Management Shell like I should have been!

 

Oh well, leaving this here might help someone else having a 'senile moment'!!

[MWR]

Thanks Fazza - just had such a senile moment (it was working earlier this afternoon and that shell crashed and I when I resumed, I restarted std powershell rather than the customised environment ...oops - bafflement terminated by Dr. Google).

 

Back to this impoverished DPM environment that necessitates using PShell and then modifying the ForceFree.ps1 script template which is NOT marking Unknown/Un-labelled tapes 'Free'...

 

 

p.s. After finding no debugging messages (I enhanced the provided script), I changed Write-Verbose to Write-Host but later found out why:

"The Write-Verbose cmdlet writes text to the verbose message stream in Windows PowerShell. Typically, the verbose message stream is used to deliver information about command processing that is used for debugging a command.

By default, the verbose message stream is not displayed, but you can display it by changing the value of the $VerbosePreference variable or using the Verbose common parameter in any command."

Also, the required syntax is "Slot-n" rather than "Slot n" as the DPM console so kindly presents it :-( (yes that is in the -? help)

 

p.p.s. How sneaky ! "$TapeLocationList -contains $media.Location" so the input list did not have to be parsed into a list. No way do I want to keep typing Slot-n, ...I guess I'd better split the input list :-)

Edited November 25, 2014 by MWR
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