Pester Remoting

published: May 31, 2019 author: Tinu tags: PowerShell categories: PowerShell-Remoting

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Table of Contents

• Table of Contents
• Run Pester in an interactive session
  • Run Pester Tests from memory
  • Run Pester Tests from local-files
• Run Pester in a persistent session
• See also

Run Pester in an interactive session

Running Pester Tests in an interactive session.

Run Pester Tests from memory

If you have the Pester-tests on the local comuter, you can start it from the ISE / VSCode:

$RemoteHost = Read-Host 'Enter the computer to connect'
$userprincipalname = "$(($env:USERNAME).ToLower())@domain.com"
$creds = (Get-Credential -Message 'Enter the credentials' -UserName $userprincipalname)

Enter-PSSession -ComputerName $RemoteHost -Credential $creds

Import-Module Pester -MinimumVersion 4.4.1

Describe "Compliance Tests Windows Updates" -Tag 'All','PMGT' {

    $LastBootTime = (Get-CimInstance Win32_OperatingSystem).LastBootUpTime
    $LastHotfix   = Get-HotFix | Select-Object -Last 1

    it "[PMGT] Test is LastBootUpTime is within to 60 days" {
        (New-TimeSpan -Start $LastBootTime -End $ActualTime).Days | should beLessThan 60
    }

    it "[PMGT] Test is LastInstalled Hotfix within to 45 days" {
        $LastInstalled = Get-Date($LastHotfix.InstalledOn)
        (New-TimeSpan -Start $LastInstalled -End $ActualTime).Days | should beLessThan 45
    }

}

Exit-PSSession

Run Pester Tests from local-files

If you have all the Pester-tests on the remote comuter, you can start Pester with Invoke-Pester:

$RemoteHost = Read-Host 'Enter the computer to connect'
$userprincipalname = "$(($env:USERNAME).ToLower())@domain.com"
$creds = (Get-Credential -Message 'Enter the credentials' -UserName $userprincipalname)

Enter-PSSession -ComputerName $RemoteHost -Credential $creds

Import-Module Pester -MinimumVersion 4.4.1

Invoke-Pester "C:\Admin\Tests"

Exit-PSSession

Run Pester in a persistent session

Running Pester Tests in a persistend session.

$RemoteHost = Read-Host 'Enter the computer to connect'
$userprincipalname = "$(($env:USERNAME).ToLower())@domain.com"
$creds = (Get-Credential -Message 'Enter the credentials' -UserName $userprincipalname)

$rsession = New-PSSession -ComputerName $RemoteHost -Credential $creds
if($rsession.State -eq 'Opened'){

    # Remove items on the remote computer
    Invoke-Command -Session $rsession -ScriptBlock {
        if(Test-Path 'C:\Admin\Tests'){remove-item 'C:\Admin\Tests' -Recurse -Force}
    }

    # Copy some scripts to the remote computer
    Copy-Item -ToSession $rsession -Path "$($PSScriptRoot)\Tests\" -Destination 'C:\Admin' -Force -Recurse
    Write-Host "Copy $($PSScriptRoot)\Tests to $($rsession.ComputerName) C:\Admin"

    # Run a Pester tests on the remote computer
    $destination = "C:\Admin\Tests"
    $pestertag   = 'All'
    $ScriptBlockContent = {
        Param($destination,$pestertag)
        Import-Module -Name Pester -MinimumVersion 4.4.1
        Invoke-Pester $destination -Tag $pestertag -PassThru -Show None
    }
    $result = Invoke-Command -Session $rsession -ScriptBlock $ScriptBlockContent -ArgumentList $destination, $pestertag

    # Remove items on the remote computer
    Invoke-Command -Session $rsession -ScriptBlock {
        if(Test-Path 'C:\Admin\Tests'){remove-item 'C:\Admin\Tests' -Recurse -Force}
    }

    Remove-PSSession -Session $rsession
}

See also

The test framework for Powershell on github.com

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