Real time display autolauch (Powershell)

[tobywan]

Hi guys,

We have alot of real time displays across our callcenters. Im working on a better solotion, when our support team needs to restart a display which takes some time (login, menu, browse etc).

I would like to base this on powershell. I havent done that much powershell, so thought this would be a good way learn abit more

This is what I have come up with so far. If I can get it to work I will add a simple gui later on.


<# Browser version must be IE or I will be redirected away from login site#>
$userAgent = 'Mozilla/5.0 (compatible; MSIE 9.0; Windows NT; Windows NT 6.1; en-US)'

<# CCMA server login page#>
$baseUrl = "

http://myccmaserver"

<# Link to real time display#>
$displayURL = "

http://myccmaserver/Reporting/Realt...cmaserver|9|ccms|Public_Billboard_Collection"

<# login process #>
$url = Invoke-WebRequest $baseUrl -SessionVariable ccmalogin -UserAgent $userAgent
$url.Forms[0].fields["UserID"] = "my display user"
$url.Forms[0].fields["Password"] = "my display password"
$result = Invoke-WebRequest $baseUrl -WebSession $ccmalogin -UserAgent $userAgent -Body $url -Method Post

<# start display #>
start $displayURL

Right now I have the following issues.

If I do a MANUAL login from the ccma website and run my script, it will launch the correct display.
If I run the script without a working running session, it will just launch the CCMA login site.
Something must be wrong with my login request then

Im getting a active X promt when running the script. Manual launch does not give this. I can click OK and it the loginsite will launch

Any obvious errors?

 

[tobywan]

ok, I got the authentication part working now

 

[effort1584]

For others future reference please post the solution.

 

[tobywan]

Yes of course. I was in a rush yesterday.

This script will login to the ccma website

$request = Invoke-WebRequest -uri '

http://myccmaserver'

-UserAgent 'Mozilla/5.0 (compatible; MSIE 9.0; Windows NT; Windows NT 6.1; en-US)' -SessionVariable ccmalogin
$loginForm = $request.Forms
$request.Forms[0].fields["UserID"] = "display user"
$request.Forms[0].fields["Password"] = "display password"

$r = Invoke-WebRequest -uri '

http://myccmaserver/Authenticate.asp'

-WebSession $ccmalogin -Method Post -Body $loginForm.Fields


However it doesnt look like its possible to convert a PS memory session to Internet Explorer. Even if my user is authenticated and logged in I get the login window when launching a browser from my script.