Powershell action return Cannot run program "Powershell.exe" error

[Gary Sun]

Hi,

Here's the command I used to run for doing the CDN purge job. It's alway successes at powershell window.

 

c:\Akamai\Invoke-AkamaiOPEN.ps1 -Method POST -ClientToken "myClientToken" -ClientAccessToken "MyClientAccessToken" -ClientSecret "MyClientSecret" -ReqURL "https://akab-xmucqzwuw3dfqxcg-aywrwrmbvp3o3wi2.purge.akamaiapis.net/ccu/v2/queues/default" -Body '{ "objects": ["http://www.MySite.com/index.asp?type=649&pop=yes&flash=yes"], "action":"invalidate", "type":"arl", "domain":"production" }'

 

Now I'd like to turn this command into action, so I create a powershell-run script file action.

After I test this action locally, RA retrun me an error message.

 

Error: Exception occurred: Cannot run program "Powershell.exe" (in directory "C:\Akamai"): CreateProcess error=2, The system cannot find the file specified

 

Both RA server and test agent is in the same computer and I can run the command in powershell window successfully.

I have no idea why the action can't run Powershell.exe.

 

Am I set something wrong?

 

Thanks

[Walter Guerrero]

Is this a 64-bit version of PowerShell that you are trying to use here?

[Gary Sun]

I have tried both true or false for 64bit powershell setting, the result is the same...

[Keith Puzey]

Hi,

   Could this be a permissions issue, is the agent running as the local system account or a named account?  I would try creating a simple action that calls a batch file in the same folder and make sure this works to ensure the agent has permissions in the folder structure. Hope this help

 

Regards

Keith

[Gary Sun]

Hi Keith,

Thank you so much for your idea.

The Nolio agent was started with local system account. I change it to administrator account for test and the action success.

The weird thing is...I change the account back to local system afterwards. The action still run successful.

[Gregg Stewart]

It seems like the PowerShell binary is not being found based on the error you get.

 

You may want to test this after configuring the Nolio Agent service to use the local administrator to ensure there are no permission issues and that it is using a user with the powershell exe in its path. If that doesn't help, what version action pack do you have installed?

 

If it does work but you don't want to continue using the administrator account then it is a matter of finding an appropriate account/permissions/path variable to use.

[Gary Sun]

Thank you Gregg. It's indeed a permission issue.