Jenkins powershell plugin always builds successfully

Question

I\'m using Jenkins PowerShell plugin to build a project.

However, I found that Jenkins always considers my build successful no matter what I type inside Windows P

Answer 1

Ultimately, I had to resort to the following configuration in Jenkins as none of the solutions here worked for me. Chris Nelson's answer got me on the right track. We're invoking chef-client remotely so we had to do a little magic to get the remote PS session to talk the local and then pass status on to Jenkins.

• $res gives the output of chef-client.
• $lastsuccess is true or false according to PS rules of engagment.

Of course, you'll have to supply your own evironment variables! :)

 Write-host "Deploying $env:Computer with $env:Databag data bag... "
 $secstr = ConvertTo-SecureString $env:Password -AsPlainText -Force 
 $cred = new-object -typename System.Management.Automation.PSCredential -argumentlist $env:User, $secstr
 $s = New-PSSession -ComputerName $env:Computer  -Credential $cred
 $res = Invoke-Command -Session $s -ScriptBlock { try {chef-client} catch {exit 1}}
 $lastsuccess = Invoke-Command -Session $s -ScriptBlock {$?}
 Remove-PSSession $s
 write-host " --- "
 write-host $res
 write-host " --- "
 if($lastsuccess)
 {
  write-host "chef deployment completed"
  exit 0
 }
 write-host "chef deployment had errors"
 exit 1