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[matt.butler]

I am running a powershell script on an on-prem Octopus Tentacle to deploy a “JAMS” job. I am not getting very good error information back. Where can I go, or what can I do to get better information on my error?

Thanks,
Matt

[jeremy.miller]

Hi Matt,

Welcome to the Octopus boards!

What kind of powershell script are you running? What is the error you’re receiving in the task log if you look at RAW?

Thanks,
Jeremy

[matt.butler]

This is what I’m trying to run:
Write-Host “Attempt to post job to JAMS Server…”

Import-JAMSXml -path $FolderPathAndJob;

Write-Host “Successfully posted to JAMS Server”

(from : https://support.jamsscheduler.com/hc/en-us/articles/206894927-Using-the-JAMS-Export-Import-PowerShell-cmdlets )

This is my error section:

Attempt to post job to JAMS Server…
11:59:08 Error | C:\Octopus\Work\20201007165904-78264-147\Script.ps1 : Default Error Handler
11:59:08 Error | At C:\Octopus\Work\20201007165904-78264-147\Bootstrap.Script.ps1:843 char:1
11:59:08 Error | + . ‘C:\Octopus\Work\20201007165904-78264-147\Script.ps1’
11:59:08 Error | + ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
11:59:08 Error | + CategoryInfo : NotSpecified: ( [Write-Error], WriteErrorException
11:59:08 Error | + FullyQualifiedErrorId : Microsoft.PowerShell.Commands.WriteErrorException,Script.ps1
11:59:08 Verbose | Updating manifest with output variables
11:59:08 Verbose | Updating manifest with action evaluated variables
11:59:08 Fatal | The remote script failed with exit code 1
11:59:08 Verbose | at Octopus.Worker.Scripting.ScriptResult.EnsureSuccessful()
| at Octopus.Server.Orchestration.Deploy.DeploymentTaskController.<>c__DisplayClass29_0.b__0()
| at Octopus.Server.Orchestration.Deploy.DeploymentTaskController.ExecuteWithTransientErrorDetection(Action action, Machine machine)
| at Octopus.Server.Orchestration.Deploy.DeploymentTaskController.ExecuteActionAndInitLoggingContext(PlannedStep step, Machine machine, PlannedAction action)

[jeremy.miller]

Hey Matt,

Thanks for the information.

In this case I think the best bet to get more detail on why Import-JAMSXml is failing is to remote into the server/tentacle running this command as the service account thats running the tentacle/server service, then run the command manually and see what the output is.

Please let me know how it goes.

Thanks,
Jeremy

[matt.butler]

I will give it a try, thanks!