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Add-PSSnapin for Scripting – Originally posted By chaffees, 09 May 2011

chaffees - Cheers All!

In short I am running into the issue where if I run my script without manually adding the Compellent Add-PSSnapin the script will fail. I have a simple task that needs to run take a replay of a volume. When I run the powershell command(s) from the powershell command prompt it works fine (after of course running Add-PSSnapin Compellent.StorageCenter.PSSnapin). But if i were to add this to the script it will not load the snapins making my replay not occur.

Does anyone know how to get the cmdlets installed so a script that needs to use them?

pongowongo - If I understand your post correctly, you are looking for a way to programically add the Compellent snapin to your script, so that when you try and call a Compellent cmdlet, it doesn't bomb. If this is the case, you can take a look at my script I had posted previously, and at the begining is code to check to see if the Compellent Snapin is loaded, and if it's not, it will add the snap-in.

https://customer.compellent.com/forums/forum_posts.asp?TID=278