Powershell Script returning status code

Products

• CA Release Automation - Release Operations Center (Nolio)

Issue/Introduction

When running an action PowerShell run script block it is always passing and not returning the status code in case of exception.

Cause

The Script execution by the action PowerShell Run Script block rely on your script/script block to return the status code conditionally or in case of any exception. In case of no explicit exception is returned the PowerShell script exit with $LASTEXITCODE, which in case of Non-Terminating errors will be 0.

Environment

Release : 6.6

Component : CA RELEASE AUTOMATION RELEASE OPERATIONS CENTER

Resolution

The example script on how the powershell script should handle returning conditional status code is as below.

$dest="c:\DirDoesNotExist"
$status
try{
cd $dest -ErrorAction Stop
}
catch [System.Exception]{
"Exception Occurred"
$status=1
}
finally{
exit $status
}

Additional Information

For more detail around PowerShell script refer PowerShell official documents

• Understanding Non-Terminating Errors in PowerShell
• about Try Catch Finally - PowerShell | Microsoft Docs