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https://dotnet-helpers.com/devops/how-to-check-website-status-on-the-linux-server/ Maintaining website uptime is essential for a positive user experience, as even short periods of downtime can frustrate users and result in lost business. Automating uptime checks on a Linux machine allows quick detection of issues, enabling faster response times. In this article, we’ll explore simple, effective ways to create a Website Uptime Checker Script in Linux using different commands like curl, wget, ping. @everyone

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How to Use PowerShell to Detect Logins and Alert Through Email using SendGrid

How to Use PowerShell to Detect Logins and Alert Through Email using SendGrid

From Microsoft MSDN, The Get-WinEvent data from event logs that are generated by the Windows Event Log technology introduced in Windows Vista.And, events in log files generated by Event Tracing for Windows (ETW).By default, Get-WinEvent returns event information in the order of newest to oldest.

Get-winevent: Gets events from event logs and event tracing log files on local and remote computers.…

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How to Use Multidimensional arrays in Powershell

How to Use Multidimensional arrays in Powershell

Before I show you how multi-dimensional arrays work, let we start what is an array. By default, PowerShell assumes that the elements of an array are of the type variant. This means that you can mix different data types—that is, combine numerical values, dates, or strings in a single variable. The data elements of a PowerShell array need not be of the same type, unless the data type is declared…

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Knockout VS jQuery

Need to compare Knockout with jQuery? Actual answer for above question is “NO”. Knockout.js is not a replacement of jQuery, Prototype etc.,. It doesn’t target to provide animation or AJAX functionality (Knockout.js can parse the data which received from an AJAX request). Knockout.js is focused only designed on data-driven UI. It is compatible with other client-side and  server-side technology.…

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Add Binding To IIS - PowerShell

Add Binding To IIS – PowerShell

Hi Guys, today we are going to disuses about how to add the binding to IIS using Powershell. In most case, during the deployments, the one of the painful activity is adding binding for new sites. So this below posts will help those members to one step towards of Automation.

The New-WebBinding cmdlet adds a new binding to an existing website.

#Assigining the URL which need to bind $_WebsiteUrl =…

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Powershell Script for Website Availability Monitoring with Excel Report as output

Powershell Script for Website Availability Monitoring with Excel Report as output

In our previous post we already discussed about “How to check response code from a website using PowerShell“ by using single URL in example. Here let we discuss how to read the list of URLs from the text file and validate the list of URL . Finally script will generate the Excel file with the output result.

$URLListFile = "D:\PowerShell\URLList.txt" #Reading the list of URLs from the URLList.txt…

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How to Compare Two Files, and List Differences

How to Compare Two Files, and List Differences

What is Compare-Object cmdlet do? The Compare-Object cmdlet compares two sets of objects. One set of objects is the “reference set,” and the other set is the “difference set”. The below format will be out of the comparison. Indicates that property value appears only in the -differenceObject. == Indicates that both property value appears same. Example: In the Compare-Object cmdlet, there are two…

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What's New With PowerShell

What’s New With PowerShell

Windows PowerShell® 5.0 includes significant new features that extend its use, improve its usability, and allow you to control & manage Windows-based environments more easily. Windows Server 2012 R2 introduced the notion of Desired State Configuration, PowerShell 5.0 advances this concept through OneGet. OneGet is a new module which way to search and install hundreds of software packages from the…

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Windows PowerShell System Requirements

This topic we are going to discuss about the system requirements for Windows PowerShell 5.0 and its special features, such as Windows PowerShell Integrated Scripting Environment (ISE), CIM commands, and workflows. Note: Windows® 8.1 and Windows Server® 2012 R2 include all required programs so no need to install any thing special to work on powershell. This topic is designed for users of earlier…

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5 - Getting Help Information

5 – Getting Help Information

The PowerShell includes detailed Help topics that explain PowerShell concepts. There are also Help topics for each cmdlet and provider and Help topics for many functions and scripts. Getting Help for Cmdlets To get Help about Windows PowerShell cmdlets, use the Get-Help cmdlet. Here let we see some of the cmdlets help. To get a list of all the cmdlet Help topics in your session use below,…

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4 - How to validate the version of installation

4 – How to validate the version of installation

We can use $PSVersionTable.PSVersion to determine the engine version. If the variable does not exist is shown then it is safe to assume the engine is version 1.0 We also use,$Host, get-host , $PSVersionTable to get deep information about our power shell tool. Please find the snap for how to get the details.

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How to get the array as input using Powershell To read an array into Read-Host, you would need to put it in a loop because anything entered into Read-Host will be interpreted as a string.