healthchecks/templates/docs/powershell.html

<h1>PowerShell</h1>
<p>You can use <a href="https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/powershell/mt173057.aspx">PowerShell</a>
 and Windows Task Scheduler to automate various tasks on a Windows system.
 From within a PowerShell script it is also easy to ping SITE_NAME.</p>
<p>Here is a simple PowerShell script that pings SITE_NAME. When scheduled to
run with Task Scheduler, it will essentially just send regular "I'm alive" messages.
You can of course extend it to do more things.</p>
<div class="highlight"><pre><span></span><code><span class="c1"># inside a PowerShell script:</span>
Invoke-RestMethod PING_URL
</code></pre></div>


<p>Save the above to e.g. <code>C:\Scripts\healthchecks.ps1</code>.
Then use the following command in a Scheduled Task to run the script:</p>
<div class="highlight"><pre><span></span><code>powershell.exe -ExecutionPolicy bypass -File C:<span class="se">\S</span>cripts<span class="se">\h</span>ealthchecks.ps1
</code></pre></div>


<p>In simple cases, you can also pass the script to PowerShell directly,
using the "-command" argument:</p>
<div class="highlight"><pre><span></span><code><span class="c1"># Without an underlying script, passing the command to PowerShell directly:</span>
powershell.exe -command <span class="p">&amp;</span><span class="o">{</span>Invoke-RestMethod PING_URL<span class="o">}</span>
</code></pre></div>