What's the best way to monitor a server reboot?

Question

I have a powershell script that restarts a server. I also wanted this script to monitor when the server goes down and when it comes back up. Right now I'm using the command:

   Test-Connection

Is this the right way to do it? Is there a better way to do this? Maybe through Event Viewer?

Thank you for your time

Answer 1

Here is a common scaffolding I use in situations like this:

$maxTries = 15
while (-not(test-connection offLinePC -Count 1 -quiet)){
    "trying again..."
    $i++
    if ($i -eq $maxTries){break;}
}

If you don't need to have a maximum number of tries, you could simplify it like this...

while (-not(test-connection offLine -Count 1 -quiet)){
    "Waiting for `offLine ` to reboot...trying again..."
}
else{
    "offLine is back online!"
}

Simple Improvement

I actually really dislike the syntax of Test-Connection, so I bake a small function into my scripts like this:

function WaitForReboot{param($HostName)
    test-connection $HostName -Count 1 -quiet
}

while (WaitForReboot OffLinePc){
    "trying again..."
}