Credentials not accessible in early morning for Azure Automation

Question

On some of my runbooks I am receiving the below error but when the runbook runs again an hour later it is fine. Is there an outage window I need to be aware of for Azure Automation or what could be happening to web service?

Get-AutomationPSCredential : A webservice exception occured. Response Code: Unused

Answer 1

Hello,

I would suggest in addition to dig in the View DSC logs on your node.

In Event Viewer, DSC events are in: Applications and Services Logs/Microsoft/Windows/Desired State Configuration

The corresponding PowerShell cmdlet, Get-WinEvent, can also be run to view the event logs:

PS C:\> Get-WinEvent -LogName "Microsoft-Windows-Dsc/Operational"

ProviderName: Microsoft-Windows-DSC

TimeCreated Id LevelDisplayName Message

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11/17/2014 10:27:23 PM 4102 Information Job {02C38626-D95A-47F1-9DA2-C1D44A7128E7} :

The log name for the analytic channel is Microsoft-Windows-Dsc/Analytic, and the debug channel is Microsoft-Windows-Dsc/Debug

You can also use the wevtutil utility to enable the logs, as shown in the following example.

wevtutil.exe set-log "Microsoft-Windows-Dsc/Analytic" /q:true /e:true

Or, use PowerShell and .NET to enable the logs as shown in the following example:

$logName = 'Microsoft-Windows-Dsc/Analytic'
$log = New-Object System.Diagnostics.Eventing.Reader.EventLogConfiguration $logName
$log.IsEnabled = $true
$log.SaveChanges()

https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/powershell/scripting/dsc/troubleshooting/troubleshooting?view=powershell-7.1#what-do-dsc-logs-contain

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