Using Powershell to check ADAM replication
Hey folks, I wanted to share a powershell script I deployed at a customers. You will find this script useful for when checking the Horizon View Broker replication status along with the Global Entitlement replication health. Typically I would establish a RDP session into each broker and execute the repadmin command on each server, this automates that process. You will need to execute this script using View PowerCLI on a Horizon View Connection server.
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Name: “ViewShowADAMRep.ps1”
Purpose: This script is used to view the replication status of the ADAM database on each View Connection server.
Achieved by:
– Acquiring connection server names via user input variable
– Opening a new powershell session on a connection server
– Running a repadmin based command to show replication on the local system for the View related LDAP instance
Execution Option1 (Displays results on the screen only): ./ViewShowADAMRep.ps1
Execution Option2 (Dumps results into a textfile, Output.txt): ./ViewShowADAMRep.ps1 > Output.txt
Creator: Jeremy Wheeler
Date: 01/20/2016
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#Create connection servers variable and fill with desired connection servers.
#Remove the hashtag and replace ‘connectionserver##’ with your View Connection server information.
$connservers = @()
#$connservers += “connectionserver#1”
#$connservers += “connectionserver#2”
#$connservers += “connectionserver#3”
#$connservers += “connectionserver#4”
#$connservers += “connectionserver#5”
#$connservers += “connectionserver#6”
#$connservers += “connectionserver#7”
Write-Host “”
Write-Host ” – Testing broker ADAM Replication…”
Write “”
Write “**************************************************”
Write “***** Now testing broker ADAM Replication *****”
Write “**************************************************”
Write “”
#Loop through connection servers
foreach ($conn in $connservers) {
#Null reused variable
$session = $null
#Create new powershell session on remote system
$session = New-PSSession -ComputerName $conn
#Runs a powershell command on the remote system
Invoke-Command -Session $session -ScriptBlock {repadmin.exe /showrepl localhost:389 ‘DC=vdi,DC=vmware,DC=int’}
}
Write-Host ” – Testing Global Entitlement ADAM Replication…”
Write-Host “”
Write “”
Write “**************************************************************”
Write “***** Now testing Global Entitlement ADAM Replication *****”
Write “**************************************************************”
Write “”
#Loop through connection servers
foreach ($conn in $connservers) {
#Null reused variable
$session = $null
#Create new powershell session on remote system
$session = New-PSSession -ComputerName $conn
#Runs a powershell command on the remote system
Invoke-Command -Session $session -ScriptBlock {repadmin.exe /showrepl localhost:22389 ‘DC=vdiglobal,DC=vmware,DC=int’}
}
Write-Host “done.”
Write-Host “”
#Removes all live powershell sessions (aka. cleanup)
Get-PSSession | Remove-PSSession
