Timeout Get-WMIObject cmdlet

Question

I run a script which performs many WMI-querys - but the cmdlet hangs if the server doesn\'t answer.. Is there any way I can make this (or any other cmndlet for that matter)

Answer 1

when creating the job using get-wmiobject assign that job to a variable, then that variable can be piped into get-job for status or receive-job for results

$ThisJob = start-job -scriptblock {param ($Target) Get-WmiObject -Class Win32_Service -ComputerName $Target -AsJob} -ArgumentList $server
$Timer = [System.Diagnostics.Stopwatch]::StartNew()
While ($ThisJob | Get-Job | where {$_.State -imatch "Running"}){
    If ($Timer.Elapsed.Seconds -ge 5) {
        echo "five seconds has passed, removing"
        $ThisJob | Get-Job | Remove-Job -Force
        } # end if
    echo "still running"
    Start-Sleep -Seconds 3
    } # end while

$Results = $ThisJob | where {$_.State -inotmatch "failed"} | receive-job
$Timer.Stop | out-null