-ZapiRetryCount

[WHITECLOUD]

There's a parameter on most of the cluster mode commandlets called -zapiretrycount.  I didn't see documentation around it.  What does it do?  In what cases would it be useful?

[beam · Accepted solution]

ZapiRetryCount is an undocumented parameter used by projects embedding the PowerShell Toolkit in a larger .Net application.  Occasionally, errors can occur that are resolved if the command is simply resent (for example, a network connection is momentarily lost).  The ZapiRetryCount parameter defines how many times to retry sending a command if one of these errors occur.

-Steven

[WHITECLOUD]

Thanks for the nice response.  I'm not using a .net application but it would seem to be just as useful in a powershell script.  Do you know what the default is?  Do you know how I would tell if a retry occurred?  Would I get the same output if it succeeded correctly the first time as I would if it failed and succeeded on a retry?  I'm speaking more about get operations that stream in that I am assigning to a variable.  I wouldn't want duplicate objects in the variable since it took multiple tries to get all the data.

[beam]

The retry happens transparently from PowerShell's perspective.  The only way you would know it even happened is if you were monitoring the logs.

The default value is 0 (i.e. no retries are attempted).

-Steven