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Invoke-NcSsh : Exception has been thrown by the target of an invocation (ISE vs POWERSHELL)

SOBOU — Thu, 11 Sep 2025 12:42:41 GMT

Good day all. I need to pick your brains for a second.

Import-Module DataONTAP

$StorageIP = "10.10.1.40"

$user = "Power"

Connect-NcController $StorageIP -Credential $user -ontapi
Invoke-NcSsh -Command 'set -confirmations off'

When running those in Powershell ISE, it works fine, but when running this in regular Powershell window, i get the "Invoke-NcSsh : Exception has been thrown by the target of an invocation"

I have already checked a couple things

Running this from a server 2022, got the latest ontap module 9.17, running against a 9.12 SAN.

i have putty installed. Putty path is in the $env:path

. Both instances of ISE and Powershell are run using regular user (not as admin)... Putty registry keys are present, etc..

When i type get-module, the only difference between both is the ISE module that is present in the ISE window.

Have you ever experienced this?

I have included a screenshot of both screens so you can see the results. Obviously that is not all the script does, but it is stuck there atm.

Re: Invoke-NcSsh : Exception has been thrown by the target of an invocation (ISE vs POWERSHELL)

chamfer — Thu, 18 Sep 2025 05:34:08 GMT

@SOBOU is your PowerShell running in constrained language mode?

Check by running the following in both PowerShell ISE and you regular PowerShell:

$ExecutionContext.SessionState.LanguageMode

If you are in "ConstrainedLanguage" in your normal PowerShell this is the reason for the difference.

Re: Invoke-NcSsh : Exception has been thrown by the target of an invocation (ISE vs POWERSHELL)?ref_source=cty-other campaign {udf}--1957

SOBOU — Thu, 18 Sep 2025 17:08:45 GMT

That was one thing I hadn't tried but it shows Full on both ISE or Powershell.

Tks for the suggestion