Get remote registry value
I have the below script that I want it to go out to multiple servers and get the value of a registry. Unfortunately it is currently just posting back the local registry value of the machine that I am running the script on.
How do I get the script to run against remote registry?
SCRIPT:
clear
#$ErrorActionPreference = "silentlycontinue"
$Logfile = "C:\temp\NEWnetbackup_version.log"
Function LogWrite
{
param([string]$logstring)
Add-Content $Logfile -Value $logstring
}
$computer = Get-Content -Path c:\temp\netbackup_servers1.txt
foreach ($computer1 in $computer){
$Service = Get-WmiObject Win32_Service -Filter "Name = 'NetBackup Client Service'" -ComputerName $computer1
if (test-connection $computer1 -quiet)
{
$NetbackupVersion1 = $(Get-ItemProperty hklm:\SOFTWARE\Veritas\NetBackup\CurrentVersion).PackageVersion
if($Service.state -eq 'Running')
{
LogWrite "$computer1 STARTED $NetbackupVersion1"
}
else
{
LogWrite "$computer1 STOPPED $NetbackupVersion1"
}
}
else
{
LogWrite "$computer1 is down" -foregroundcolor RED
}
}
You can try using .net:
$Reg = [Microsoft.Win32.RegistryKey]::OpenRemoteBaseKey('LocalMachine', $computer1)
$RegKey= $Reg.OpenSubKey("SOFTWARE\\Veritas\\NetBackup\\CurrentVersion")
$NetbackupVersion1 = $RegKey.GetValue("PackageVersion")
Try the Remote Registry Module, the registry provider cannot operate remotely:
Import-Module PSRemoteRegistry
Get-RegValue -ComputerName $Computer1 -Key SOFTWARE\Veritas\NetBackup\CurrentVersion -Value PackageVersion
If you have Powershell remoting and CredSSP setup then you can update your code to the following:
$Session = New-PSSession -ComputerName $Computer1 -Authentication CredSSP
$NetbackupVersion1 = Invoke-Command -Session $Session -ScriptBlock { $(Get-ItemProperty hklm:\SOFTWARE\Veritas\NetBackup\CurrentVersion).PackageVersion}
Remove-PSSession $Session
another option ... needs remoting ...
(invoke-command -ComputerName mymachine -ScriptBlock {Get-ItemProperty HKLM:\SOFTWARE\VanDyke\VShell\License -Name Version }).version
For remote registry you have to use .NET with powershell 2.0
$w32reg = [Microsoft.Win32.RegistryKey]::OpenRemoteBaseKey('LocalMachine',$computer1)
$keypath = 'SOFTWARE\Veritas\NetBackup\CurrentVersion'
$netbackup = $w32reg.OpenSubKey($keypath)
$NetbackupVersion1 = $netbackup.GetValue('PackageVersion')