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Learning PowerShell DSC

You're reading from   Learning PowerShell DSC Automate deployment and configuration of your servers

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Product type Paperback
Published in Sep 2017
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ISBN-13 9781787287242
Length 272 pages
Edition 2nd Edition
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Table of Contents (9) Chapters Close

Preface 1. Introducing PowerShell DSC FREE CHAPTER 2. DSC Architecture 3. DSC Configuration Files 4. DSC Resources 5. Pushing DSC Configurations 6. Pulling DSC Configurations 7. DSC Cross Platform Support 8. Example Scenarios

Debugging and troubleshooting configuration script files

So, you ran a DSC configuration against a target node using either Start-DscConfiguration or a Pull Server and you want to look at the logs for its execution; where do you go? If you ran it with Start-DscConfiguration and the verbose parameter, then you have a log in your console, but that goes away when you close your console and you don't have this available with a Pull Server.

Worry not, for DSC provides a rich set of information from each operation it performs, although it's not always easy to access this information.

Status at a glance

A new feature for WMF 5 is storing status information in each target node which helps in identifying the current status...

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