MSBuild Community Tasks - AppPoolController

Question

Has anyone been able to stop an app pool on a remote IIS server successfully with the MSBuild Community Tasks apppoolcontroller task?  I can stop it locally but not remotely following the .chm instructions.

I am receiving the following errors:

error : Index was outside the bounds of the array.
error : Failed stopping application pool "xxx" on "xxx".

I have searched some forums and googled the internet to death but there are very few posts or links about this task.

Thanks in Advance.

Answer 1

If you are using .net 3.5, you can try the MSBuild Extension Pack . If you are stuck on 2, let me know and I'll take a look at the community code.

Mike

Answer 2

Unfortunately, this is for the 2.0 framework. 

Answer 3

I managed to get it to work using

 <AppPoolController ApplicationPoolName="AnAppPool" Action="Restart" ServerName="MyServer"/>

I don't need security credentials in my scenario. Note the documentation is wrong for the task, the property is ApplicationPoolName, not AppPoolName.

Can you provide your sample and full log. I used the latest nightly build. not sure if / when it was ever updated.

Mike

Answer 4

Tried that with the same result:

Project "D:\Apps\CruiseControl.NET\server_ProviderCheckAmounts\PCA_TEST.proj" (default targets):

Target Compile:
    Building ProviderCheckAmounts solution...
Target AfterBuild:
    D:\Apps\CruiseControl.NET\server_ProviderCheckAmounts\PCA_TEST.proj(48,3): error : Index was outside the bounds of the array.
    D:\Apps\CruiseControl.NET\server_ProviderCheckAmounts\PCA_TEST.proj(48,3): error : Failed stopping application pool "ProviderCheckAmounts" on "ProviderCheckAmounts".
Done building target "AfterBuild" in project "PCA_TEST.proj" -- FAILED.

What seems strange is that it is trying to stop the app pool on the app pool instead of the server.

I am using the latest nightly build tasks.  In addition, the service account has admin rights to the build machine and web server.

<Target Name="AfterBuild" DependsOnTargets="Compile">

  <AppPoolController ApplicationPoolName="ProviderCheckAmounts" Action="Stop" ServerName="AUSPORTTW01" />

Answer 5

Ignore the message, its just a bug in the task

                Log.LogError("Failed {0} application pool \"{1}\" on \"{1 }\".", GetActionInProgress(), ApplicationPoolName, ServerName);

I think your best bet will be to download the code and step into the debugger. I suspect it's failing in the VerifyIISRoot() call.

Regards

Mike

Answer 6

I work with michael and got it fixed by adding a check in VerifyServerPortExists call

///

 

<exclude/>

 

private bool VerifyServerPortExists(DirectoryEntry site)

{

 

string serverBindings = site.Properties["ServerBindings"].Value.ToString();

 

string[] serverBindingsArray = serverBindings.Split(':');

 

if (serverBindingsArray.Length>=2 && mServerPort == Convert.ToInt32(serverBindingsArray[1]))

{

mServerInstance = site.Name;

mIISServerPath =

string.Format("IIS://{0}/W3SVC/{1}/Root", mServerName, mServerInstance);

mIISApplicationPath =

string.Format("/LM/W3SVC/{0}/Root", mServerInstance);

mIISAppPoolPath =

string.Format("IIS://{0}/W3SVC/AppPools", mServerName);

 

return true;

}

 

return false;

}