Jobs are the result of running a script. Jobs are retained based on the script and server level settings.
Jobs can be viewed by clicking the Automation / Jobs page. Click the View button to navigate to the job. Jobs in progress can also bee cancelled.
Standard job output is shown on the Output Tab of the job page. This should contain text from various PowerShell streams.
Pipeline output for jobs are also stored within UA. Any object that is written to the pipeline is stored as CliXml and available for view within the Pipeline Output tab.
You can expand the tree view to see the objects and properties from the pipeline.
Any errors written to the error stream will be available on the Error tab within the job page.
Some jobs will require feedback. Any script that contains a Read-Host call will wait until there is user interaction with that job. The job will be in a Waiting for Feedback state and you can respond to that feedback by click the Response to Feedback button on the job page.
You can use Invoke-UAScript
to invoke jobs from the command line. You will need a valid App Token to do so. Parameters are defined using dynamic parameters on the Invoke-UAScript
cmdlet.
Invoke-UAScript -Script 'Script1.ps1' -RequiredParameter 'Hello'
You can also call UA scripts from UA scripts. When running a job in UA, you don't need to define an app token or the computer name manually. These will be defined for you. You can just call Invoke-UAScript
within your script to start another script. Both jobs will be shown in the UI. If you want to wait for the script to finish, use Wait-UAJob
.
You can use the Wait-UAJob
cmdlet to wait for a job to finish. Pipe the return value of Invoke-UAScript
to Wait-UAJob
to wait for the job to complete. Wait-UAJob
will wait indefinitely unless the -Timeout
parameter is specified.
Invoke-UAScript -Script 'Script1.ps1' -RequiredParameter 'Hello' | Wait-UAJob
You can use the Get-PSUJobPipelineOutput
cmdlet to return the pipeline output that was produced by a job. This pipeline output will be deserialized objects that were written to the pipeline during the job. You can access this data from where you have access to the PowerShell Universal Management API.
Get-PSUJobPipelineOutput -JobId 10
It may be required to return the output from a script's last job run. In order to do this, you will need to use a combination of cmdlets to retrieve the script, the last job's ID and then return the pipeline or host output.
$Job = Get-UAScript -Name 'Script.ps1' | Get-UAJob -OrderDirection Descending -First 1Get-UAJobPipelineOutput -Job $JobGet-UAJobOutput -Job $Job
The following example invokes a script, stores the job object in a $job
variable, waits for the job to complete and then returns the pipeline and host output.
Invoke-UAScript -Script 'Script1.ps1' -RequiredParameter 'Hello' | Tee-Object -Variable job | Wait-UAJob​$Pipeline = Get-UAJobPipelineOutput -Job $Job$HostOutput = Get-UAJobOutput -Job $Job
There are several built-in variables that are defined when a job is run. You can use these variables in your scripts to retrieve information about the current job.
Name | Description |
$UAJob | The current job that is running. This will include properties such as the script, the user that started the job and when the job was started. |
$UAJobId | The ID of the running job. |
$UAScript | The script that is running. This will include properties such as the name of the script and path to the script. |
$UAScriptId | The ID of the running script. |
$UASchedule | The schedule that was used to start the script. |
$UAScheduleId | The ID of the schedule that started the script. |
You can retrieve the name of the user that started the script by using the UAJob
variable
$UAJob.Identity.Name