Prompted variable to choose a target computer for Powershell?

[jimlocke2]

Is it possible, to configure a project to use a prompted variable to indicate which target computer to run Powershell on?
What I want to do, is allow a user to pick which machine to run a Restart-WebAppPool on (to recycle an IIS app pool).
I’d have the script run on the Octopus server, and configure the target with the prompted variable, however, it would be cleaner if I could have the script run on the selected server, than having the additional code needed to run it remotely.

Thanks!

[Kenneth_Bates]

Hi Jim,

Thanks for getting in touch! Unfortunately I don’t think there’s a super straightforward way to approach this, since there’s no way to bind variables to target roles or evaluate variable run conditions per machine. However a few options come to mind that could potentially help are:

• Run an adhoc script against the one machine
• Exclude machines at deployment time
• Add some logic in your script to exit on other machines, using variable substitution syntax

Would any of those options suit? Let me know what you think or if you have any further questions going forward.

Best regards,

Kenny