invoke-command and timeouts

[penfold]

I want to run a script using invoke command against a list of servers. However, every now and then we get reports that running PS causes high CPU usage and causes the server to be unresponsive. Someone then needs to kill the task in order to get the server back which obviously can causes outages. So my thinking is that I would put a timeout on my script and so if there is any problems from the script, it would kill the PS session and prevent problems.

 

Whole idea is to run a script against a group of Servers in a loop so I don't want to stopping on 1 server that has a problem or causing an outage. So if I can put a timeout in the Invoke command, would this kill the PS on the client server and continue on?

[HPlum78]

One approach could be to use Jobs, the following may help you get to grips with this initially.

 

https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/powershell/module/microsoft.powershell.core/about/about_remote_jobs?view=powershell-7.1