Trigger or start a new build on a bamboo plan using rest api from a powershell script

Question

In order to do the trigger I am using the below powershell commands(Also I don't want to use the username password for auth, is there any other way to to that? may be using a PAT or something): $url = "https:///rest/api/latest/queue/-" $header = @{ "Content-Type"="application/json" } $body = @{ "Authorization"="Bearer " } | ConvertTo-Json Invoke-RestMethod -Uri ([Uri]$url) -Method Post -Headers $header -body $body But I keep getting the below error: Invoke-RestMethod : Unable to connect to the remote server.. What am I missing in the above line..or is there any other way to achieve this?

Suguna Tejaswini Nandakumara · Answer

Hi,

Yes the URL is correct. May be its because of the authentication issues.

I will look into the link you have added.

Thanks and regards,

Tejaswini N.S

Shashank Kumar · Answer

Hello Suguna,

I was able to trigger a REST API with the exact same configurations, example below

$token = "acd"
$headers = @{
Authorization="Bearer $token"
}
Invoke-RestMethod -Method Post -Headers $headers -Uri "http://localhost:8085/rest/api/latest/queue/BAM-BOO"

I think the error which are getting  Invoke-RestMethod : Unable to connect to the remote server , i think localhost is not being able to resolve by the agent where you are running the builds.

Are you running this on a local agent or a remote agent and can you see if the URL you have put for your Bamboo Instance is correct?

Similar question is explained here >  https://stackoverflow.com/questions/38830912/powershell-invoke-restmethod-unable-to-connect-to-the-remote-server

Regards,

Shashank Kumar

Suguna Tejaswini Nandakumara · Answer

Thank you for the details. I tried doing below, by adding a powershell script task in a build plan. $token = "" $headers = @{ Authorization="Bearer $token" } Invoke-RestMethod -Method Post -Headers $headers -Uri "http://localhost:8085/rest/api/latest/queue/" I still get the error as below: Invoke-RestMethod : Unable to connect to the remote server