PowerShell/Docs/alert.md

PS> alert.ps1

This PowerShell script handles and escalates the given alert message.

Parameters

alert.ps1 [[-Message] <String>] [<CommonParameters>]

-Message <String>
    Specifies the alert message
    
    Required?                    false
    Position?                    1
    Default value                
    Accept pipeline input?       false
    Accept wildcard characters?  false

[<CommonParameters>]
    This script supports the common parameters: Verbose, Debug, ErrorAction, ErrorVariable, WarningAction, 
    WarningVariable, OutBuffer, PipelineVariable, and OutVariable.

Example

PS> ./alert "Harddisk failure"

Notes

Author: Markus Fleschutz | License: CC0

Related Links

https://github.com/fleschutz/PowerShell

Script Content

<#
.SYNOPSIS
	Handles and escalates an alert 
.DESCRIPTION
	This PowerShell script handles and escalates the given alert message.
.PARAMETER message
	Specifies the alert message
.EXAMPLE
	PS> ./alert "Harddisk failure"
.LINK
	https://github.com/fleschutz/PowerShell
.NOTES
	Author: Markus Fleschutz | License: CC0
#>

param([string]$Message = "")

try {
	if ($Message -eq "" ) { $URL = read-host "Enter alert message" }

	echo "ALERT: $Message"

	curl --header "Access-Token: o.PZl5XCp6SBl4F5PpaNXGDfFpUJZKAlEb" --header "Content-Type: application/json" --data-binary '{"type": "note", "title": "ALERT", "body": "$Message"}' --request POST https://api.pushbullet.com/v2/pushes

	exit 0 # success
} catch {
	"⚠️ Error in line $($_.InvocationInfo.ScriptLineNumber): $($Error[0])"
	exit 1
}

(generated by convert-ps2md.ps1 using the comment-based help of alert.ps1 as of 07/29/2023 10:04:03)