Script for hub is erroring with "The event timed out"

PowerShell Universal Universal Automation
1 
Product: PowerShell Universal
Version: 5.4.2

I’m just starting to mess around with PU and I’m using an agent on a test machine to try and execute just a simple “Get-ComputerInfo” right now. I have the agent showing up under Event Hubs → Connections but when I try to run my script (which I copied from the Ironman YouTube video on agents) the job errors out with this:

The event timed out.
at <ScriptBlock>, /root/.PowerShellUniversal/Repository/Windows Tools/Run Test.ps1: line 2
at <ScriptBlock>, /root/.PowerShellUniversal/Repository/Windows Tools/Run Test.ps1: line 1
at <ScriptBlock>, <No file>: line 1

Here’s the code:

Get-PSUEventHubConnection | Where-Object { $_.EventHub -eq 'Windows Desktops' -and -not $_.Disconnected} | ForEach-Object{
    Invoke-PSUCommand -ConnectionId $_.ConnectionId -Hub 'Windows Desktops' -Command "Get-ComputerInfo"
}

Am I doing something wrong here? Thank you for any assistance.

2

I haven’t see any YouTube videos for it but, the official instructions/doc is here: Event Hubs | PowerShell Universal

You can see that the samples are largely different than what you have.

I created a script with your code, and only altered the name of the hub to use on one of my hubs/agents, and it ran fine. Did you create the helper script on the Agent side? As I mentioned, I haven’t seen any YouTube videos for this, so I’m not aware of what all it says to do. The doc I linked above is what I set mine up with, and your script works in my setup.

3

Thanks Jesse! I’ll dig more into then, maybe it’s something with the file names.

This is the video I was referring to: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BK7XvIMnVss

4

Sure. If you’re seeing a connected agent on the PSU server side, you obviously have the agent.json file configured right on the Agent side.

How are you calling your script? Is it from a scheduled job, or are you manually running it, or is it being triggered by an API (Endpoint), etc.?