Setting the SQL TcpPort value via PowerShell and WMI
My customer has a requirement that all SQL instances use a non-standard port, and I wanted to set this during install as part of the basic script, because we'll be doing a lot of SQL installs and we want to eliminate manual effort where possible. I looked around and the few samples I found were using VB Script and were quite verbose and ugly. I was sure I could do it more simply in PowerShell and it turns out I was right.
function SetPort($instance, $port)
{
$filterString = "InstanceName='$instance' AND IpAddressName='IPAll' AND ProtocolName='Tcp' AND PropertyName='TcpPort'"
$InstanceList = get-wmiobject ServerNetworkProtocolProperty -namespace "root\Microsoft\SqlServer\ComputerManagement" -filter $filterString
foreach ($sqlInstance in $InstanceList)
{
if ($sqlInstance -ne $null)
{
$sqlInstance.SetStringValue($port)
}
}
}
function SetArgumentVariables ($argList)
{
foreach ($arg in $argList)
{
$argPair = $arg.Split("=")
if ($argPair.Count -eq 2)
{
$key = $argPair[0]
$value = $argPair[1]
switch ($key)
{
"port" {
$result = [System.Int32]::TryParse($value, [ref] $global:Port);
if (!$result)
{
$global:Port = ""
}
}
"instance" {$global:Instance = $value}
default {}
}
}
}
}
SetArgumentVariables $args
SetPort $global:Instance $global:Port
This can then be called as such:
powershell .\SetPort.ps1 instance=MyInstance port=9999
net stop MSSQL$MyInstance
net start MSSQL$MyInstance
Comments
- Anonymous
March 28, 2014
The worked great for me. I would like to use this except I need the usage to be .SetPort.ps1 myinstance 9999. Being a novice at Powershell I am having a challenge. Any suggestions?