Test Guest OS Connectivity with PowerShell

[adam.paradis]

Is there a way to test Guest OS connectivity with PowerShell (the equivalent of the Test Now button on the Guest Processing tab in a backup job)? I've looked through the cmdlets but the only one I can find that seems like it might fit is Test-VBRGuestServiceConnection, but it says in Get-Help that it is for internal use only. Thanks.

[david.domask]

Hi Adam,

No officially supported cmdlet I'm aware of; I did not know about Test-VBRGuestServiceConnection, but it theoretically does what you want, but at least for me it's bugged and won't print results to the shell. If you run it with -Debug flag, it will print the results to shell and you can maybe grab it with the Powershell transcript, but I'm doubtful, and parsing the log file VeeamPowerShell_{DOMAIN}_{USER}.log in %localappdata%/Veeam/Backup/Powershell might work. (you can use the switch feature in Powershell with the -Regex flag to quickly parse data out; the entries for this cmdlet get logged with a tag [TaskLog], so you can just write an expression to capture lines starting with that and see the results and use -ErrorAction SilentlyContinue to swallow the errors in your script)

@oleg.feoktistov are you able to share a bit more about the history of this cmdlet? I get the idea of it being a fast check that the credentials work and saves a lot of failed job runs potentially, so not sure if it was ever intended for production testing or not.