Restarting Splunk Forwarders with Powershell

[zacharyhatsis]

Can anyone give me some insight into why this script might not be working? I'm fairly new to powershell, so i'm sure its somethign simple:

$serverlist =
"C:\Users\zh\Desktop\serverlist.txt"
Get-Content $serverlist |
foreach($comp in
$serverlist){Invoke-Command
-ComputerName $_ -FilePath "C:\Program Files\SplunkUniversalForwarder\bin\splunk.exe"
-ArgumentList restart -verbose}

I tried using the splunk powershell kit, and didn't have a lot of luck getting the commands to work without debugging it, so I figured this shoudl be a simple one-liner on powershell to fix on my own rather than debugging the kit. Thanks!

[bdlabs]

Try "restart-service splunk*" instead of "-FilePath "C:Program FilesSplunkUniversalForwarderbinsplunk.exe"
-ArgumentList restart -verbose"

[zacharyhatsis]

$serverlist = "C:\Users\zh\Desktop\serverlist.txt"
foreach ($server in Get-Content $serverlist) {Invoke-Command -ScriptBlock {"C:\program files\splunkuniversalforwarder\bin\splunk.exe restart"} -ComputerName $server -verbose}

[sbrant_splunk]

FYI, you can either escape the slashes in your answer or highlight the "code" portion of your answer and click the "code sample" (1s and 0s) button on the formatting menu.

[zacharyhatsis]

for some reason the backslashes get removed from this thread. they are all there for the directory names.