Unzip not working

sbagwan_5956

I am trying to Unzip a file on a remote machine which has a server type "Powershell Agentless" I am able to check if the file is present or not using "Ensure File" it also gives the output on the log that file is present. After that when the unzip block runs there are no output and no extracted data in the folder.

If anyone knows what is wrong here kindly provide their feedback

atripp

hi; please share your OtterScript and we might be able to get a better idea :)

sbagwan_5956

I am using the in-built function from otter's visual config editor.

Extract-ZipFile
( 
    Name: C:\Temp\test.zip,
    Directory: C:\Temp,
    ClearTarget: false,
    Overwrite: false
);

atripp

Thanks!

So to be clear, is this in a "configuration plan" or an "orchestration plan"? Can you give some more context as to how you're trying to use this (i.e. why do you want to unzip)? Can you share the full plan?

sbagwan_5956

Below you can find the image which will provide you all the details you want

atripp

Hello;

What are you trying to do?

This definitely won't work for several reasons.

Ensure-File is an "Ensure" operation and will detect configuration drift and can optionally create the file if it doesn't exist; but in this case, it would be a 0-byte file named test.zip, which isn't a valid zip
Extract-ZipFile is a "Execute-only" operation, which means it will run only within a block (e.g. { ... } ) if drift was detected (i.e. the file didn't exist in the operation before); but if that was the case, it would fail because it's not a valid zip file

You probably want to use an Orchestration plan for this.

Please read through this eBook to get feeling for how configuration and Orchestration Plans: https://inedo.com/support/resources/ebooks/windows-first-iac-cca