Shell Script Resource-Timeout error

Hi!!
I have an issue with the Shell Script Resource, the problem is as follows:
When I created a user in this resource and appears a error message:
com.waveset.util.WavesetException: An error occurred adding user 'user01' to resource 'Shell Script'. com.waveset.util.WavesetException: Script failed waiting for "_,)#+(:" in response "" com.waveset.util.WavesetException: Script processor timed out with nothing to read and the following unprocessed text: "".
I added the timeout property = 300 000 in my shell script is as follows:
<ResTypeAction restype='Shell Script' timeout='300000'>
but it doesn't work.
I had the IDM 8 with the patch 4 but the problem beging when I did upgrade to patch 4 to 6.
Does anyone knows what could be the problem.
Thanks in advance!

Hello!
That isn't the problem the test connection works fine but when I try provisioning a user the shell script execute some instructions, in the shell script I need to set the timeout property in order to give more time to finish execute the instructions before the script execute the following command.
I tested the timeout property in the shell script and work to fine for IDM 8 patch 4 I upgrade to patch 10 and stopped to work.
Does anyone knows What could be the rigth way to set the timeout property in a resource action for shell script resource?
Thanks...

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Message was edited by: CyX SenZe

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Shell Script: Timeout and return error if Sqlplus hangs
Dear all,
This morning, our production database hung with lots of ORA-600 and 7445. The issue has been escalated to Oracle Tech support but my monitoring script which tries to make a connection every 5 mins to the database to see if its up, did not alert me. The reason is that, it connected to the database and hung, never came out to report an error and so I never got alerted until a user called me.
Can any one tell me how I can exit from the sqlplus block if I dont get a response in x seconds? This sqlplus block is being called with in a shell script.
Any help is highly apprciated.

I don't know of anything built into any shell scripting language that would do this, no. I'm not a Perl programmer, but I have a vague recollection that Perl may have something useful here.
From the "separate thread" part of my comment, though, you could certainly spawn a separate thread (thread 2), have thread 2 wait a period of time, then look for a message from thread 1 and throw an error if the message hadn't been sent. I don't know that I'd be for writing multi-threaded shell scripts, though. The heartbeat also gives you a layer of redundancy so that something is monitoring the monitor in case that process stops working.
Justin

How to execute power shell script file inside DSC script resource

Hi,
How to execute /call powershell scirpt file inside DSC script resource , some thing like below and capture the status of execution.
Node $AllNodes.NodeName
Script ExecuteSQLDeploy
#SetScript = {powershell.exe .\SQLDeploy.ps1 "param1" "param2" "param3" "param4" "param5" }
#TestScript= {powershell.exe .\SQLDeploy.ps1 "param1" "param2" "param3" "param4" "param5 }
#GetScript= { return $true;}
Basawaraj

Thanks for reply.
Now i am able to execute the power shell script with DSC. I am getting no error when i run , but the script logic wrote inside ( deploying sql incremental changes ) not working . I am using SQLCMD in the powershell script to deploy sql
changes . Can you please elaborate on "script is compatible with DSC" , the script
should not contain write-host cmdlet.... etc something like that.
Copying recursively from ****************************** to ************************** succeeded.
Perform operation 'Invoke CimMethod' with following parameters, ''methodName' = SendConfigurationApply,'className' = MSFT_DSCLocalConfigurationManager,'namespaceName' = root/Microsoft/Windows/DesiredStateConfiguration'.
An LCM method call arrived from computer ************ with user sid **********************************************
[V-BAKANT]: LCM: [ Start Set ]
[V-BAKANT]: LCM: [ Start Resource ] [[Script]ExecuteSQLDeploy]
[V-BAKANT]: LCM: [ Start Test ] [[Script]ExecuteSQLDeploy]
[V-BAKANT]: LCM: [ End Test ] [[Script]ExecuteSQLDeploy] in 0.1110 seconds.
[V-BAKANT]: LCM: [ Start Set ] [[Script]ExecuteSQLDeploy]
[V-BAKANT]: LCM: [ End Set ] [[Script]ExecuteSQLDeploy] in 0.3010 seconds.
[V-BAKANT]: LCM: [ End Resource ] [[Script]ExecuteSQLDeploy]
[V-BAKANT]: LCM: [ End Set ]
[V-BAKANT]: LCM: [ End Set ] in 0.8810 seconds.
Operation 'Invoke CimMethod' complete.
Time taken for configuration job to complete is 0.923 seconds
Basawaraj

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