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Ah! That is great news. Thanks. Sent an email to Marcos, waiting on answer. Lester

I believe Powergadgets could be a great tool to be used here at Compassion in other groups, anything i can do to help facilitate this issue? My goal is to show how quickly a admin could create a powergadgets gadget for thier desktop to monitor things such as our soa infrastructure. Showing powergadgets doing things like memory/running process while impressive has not peeked the curiosity much as i would have thought. Showing it against specific applications w/in the environment seems to have a much better response. The key is demonstrating Powergadgets creator and the simplicity for most anyone to perform monitoring tasks rather than software developers in their darkened rooms.

Windows PowerShellCopyright © 2006 Microsoft Corporation. All rights reserved.PS C:\WINDOWS\system32> invoke-webservice -WSDL http://dcorp77/management/managementservice.asmx?WSDL -Method ProbeService "<?xml version=`"1.0`"?><ProbeServiceRequest xmlns:xsd=`"http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema`" xmlns:xsi=`"http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance`" SchemaVersion=`"1`" xmlns=`"http://schemas.compassion.com/management/probeservicerequest/2007-04-01`"><ServiceName>CRDataProbe</ServiceName></ProbeServiceRequest>"Invoke-WebService : TypeConverter cannot convert from System.String.At line:1 char:18+ invoke-webservice <<<< -WSDL http://dcorp77/management/managementservice.asmx?WSDL -Method ProbeService "<?xml version=`"1.0`"?><ProbeServiceRequest xmlns:xsd=`"http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema`" xmlns:xsi=`"http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance`" SchemaVersion=`"1`" xmlns=`"http://schemas.compassion.com/management/probeservicerequest/2007-04-01`"><ServiceName>CRDataProbe</ServiceName></ProbeServiceRequest>"PS C:\WINDOWS\system32> if i change the wsdl to be an incorrect address like it would be in your case, i get the same error you see on your end. Lester

ah the backtick, forgot about that with powershell, changed to that, no diff.

ok reinstalling powergadgets fixed the open powershell console issue. Trying to invoke using the invoke-webservice also failed PS C:\WINDOWS\system32>invoke-webservice -WSDL http://dcorp77/management/managementservice.asmx?WSDL -Method ProbeService "<?xml version="1.0"?><ProbeServiceRequest xmlns:xsd="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" SchemaVersion="1" xmlns="http://schemas.compassion.com/management/probeservicerequest/2007-04-01"><ServiceName>CRDataProbe</ServiceName></ProbeServiceRequest>"Invoke-WebService'>http://schemas.compassion.com/management/probeservicerequest/2007-04-01"><ServiceName>CRDataProbe</ServiceName></ProbeServiceRequest>"Invoke-WebService : TypeConverter cannot convert from System.String.At line:1 char:18+ invoke-webservice <<<< -WSDL http://dcorp77/management/managementservice.asmx?WSDL -Method ProbeService "<?xml version="1.0"?><ProbeServiceRequest xmlns:xsd="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" SchemaVersion="1" xmlns="http://schemas.compassion.com/management/probeservicerequest/2007-04-01"><ServiceName>CRDataProbe</ServiceName></ProbeServiceRequest>" try again with " escaped in PS C:\WINDOWS\system32> invoke-webservice -WSDL http://dcorp77/management/managementservice.asmx?WSDL -Method ProbeService <?xml version="1.0"?><ProbeServiceRequest "xmlns:xsd=\"http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema\" xmlns:xsi=\"http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance\" SchemaVersion=\"1\" xmlns=\"http://schemas.compassion.com/management/probeservicerequest/2007-04-01\"><ServiceName>CRDataProbe</ServiceName></ProbeServiceRequest>"The redirection operator '<' is not supported yet.At line:1 char:101+ invoke-webservice -WSDL http://dcorp77/management/managementservice.asmx?WSDL -Method ProbeService <? <<<< xml version="1.0"?><ProbeServiceRequest "xmlns:xsd=\"http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema\" xmlns:xsi=\"http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance\" SchemaVersion=\"1\" xmlns=\"http://schemas.compassion.com/management/probeservicerequest/2007-04-01\"><ServiceName>CRDataProbe</ServiceName></ProbeServiceRequest>"PS C:\WINDOWS\system32> Any other Ideas?

re: trying invoke-webservice, When i open powershell powergadgets console window i get this error:L WARNING: The following errors occurred when loading console C:\ProgramFiles\PowerGadgets\PowerGadgets.psc1:Cannot load Windows PowerShell snap-in PowerGadgets because of the followingerror: The Windows PowerShell snap-in module C:\ProgramFiles\PowerGadgets\PowerGadgets.Commands.dll does not have required WindowsPowerShell snap-in strong name PowerGadgets.Commands, Version=1.0.2769.24553,Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=a1878e2052c08dce.Windows PowerShell

Generally when one is a MVP of a product there are a few things that follow in line with that. Obviously It is a program designed to market and push out the technology to other people, that is generally done via many ways. In line with this, are there rules/regulations that is generally expected that MVP's will follow, for example We should use the Gold MVP logo, if we use the logo in a signature, a URL should be enabled to click back to powergadgets, etc. Are we as MVP's tracked, eg do we each have a unique MVP ID, so that if i refer people to buy powergadgets is there a way for you to know I did it? (or do you even want to do that) Also T-Shirt/Business Casual shirts with the Powergadgets/MVP would be very good to have as a witness of the product, especially when attending usergroup meets and such. (mugs and stuff is nice, but i belive a shirt is the most effective) I just wanted to open this discussion up and see what people thing. Lester

No i am sorry there is no external access. All of a soa services accept a single parameter which is an xml document, for example: <ProbeServiceRequest xmlns:xsd="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" SchemaVersion="1" xmlns="http://schemas.compassion.com/management/probeservicerequest/2007-04-01"> <ServiceName>SomeData</ServiceName> </ProbeServiceRequest> In this request the ProbeService reads the xml and responds accordingly (which is also a xml document). This is a very simplistic document, most of the documents have many elements in them. We have others consuming these sevices from .NET applications and ASP applications right now. Lester

We are extensive users of SOA services here. All of our wsdl's pass in complex data types via XML documents, when I use the PowerGadgets Creator the application simply locks up once I click on finish. I have downloaded and applied all updates to get to current release (as of 11/20/07) (it used to crash) Steps to reproduce 1. Select Wsdl 2. Select Method to Invoke 3. Past in xml for the only parameter present I am trying to present that is could be an easy way to retrive data and graph it without any/much programming.