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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1F497D">Thank you Zak. The bat file is executing now.
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David, the batchfile.bat is located in the <externalscriptlocation> folder<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">From:</span></b><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"> David Boyer [mailto:davieb@gmail.com]
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<b>Sent:</b> Monday, July 03, 2017 11:24 AM<br>
<b>To:</b> Beck, Zak <zak.beck@accenture.com><br>
<b>Cc:</b> Steve Brown <sgb@pics.com>; xymon@xymon.com<br>
<b>Subject:</b> Re: [Xymon] Powershell external scripts<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:12.0pt">Zak,<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:12.0pt"> Given this entry:<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:12.0pt"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#0D13FF">external:everyscan:sync:batchfile.bat</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:12.0pt">Where would the batchfile.bat located on the Xymon Server? Would it be in the HOME directory of ~xymon/server/etc?<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">On Mon, Jul 3, 2017 at 11:33 AM, Beck, Zak <<a href="mailto:zak.beck@accenture.com" target="_blank">zak.beck@accenture.com</a>> wrote:<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#0D13FF">Hi</span><span lang="EN-GB"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#0D13FF"> </span><span lang="EN-GB"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#0D13FF">If you’re using XymonPSClient, you need to tell the client to execute it. You do this
via configuration on the server in client-local.cfg, something like this:</span><span lang="EN-GB"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#0D13FF">[hostname]</span><span lang="EN-GB"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#0D13FF">external:everyscan:sync:batchfile.bat</span><span lang="EN-GB"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#0D13FF"> </span><span lang="EN-GB"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#0D13FF">I think that should work! If you want to get more advanced, you can also have the client
download the batch file from a web server and this enables you to update the batch file remotely (see the doc file).</span><span lang="EN-GB"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto"><b><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">From:</span></b><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"> Xymon [mailto:<a href="mailto:xymon-bounces@xymon.com" target="_blank">xymon-bounces@xymon.com</a>]
<b>On Behalf Of </b>Steve Brown<br>
<b>Sent:</b> 03 July 2017 15:54<br>
<b>To:</b> David Boyer <<a href="mailto:davieb@gmail.com" target="_blank">davieb@gmail.com</a>><br>
<b>Cc:</b> <a href="mailto:xymon@xymon.com" target="_blank">xymon@xymon.com</a><br>
<b>Subject:</b> [External] Re: [Xymon] Powershell external scripts</span><span lang="EN-GB"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto"><span lang="EN-GB"> <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1F497D">Thank you for the reply. I have a bat file in the "<externalscriptlocation>" folder but it is not being
executed. If I schedule it through the Windows Task scheduler it does get executed. Is there something else I need to do in the xymon powershell to have it execute the bat file? It appears I’m missing something.
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1F497D">Thank you for your help</span><span lang="EN-GB"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1F497D">Steve</span><span lang="EN-GB"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto"><b><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">From:</span></b><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"> David Boyer [<a href="mailto:davieb@gmail.com" target="_blank">mailto:davieb@gmail.com</a>]
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<b>Sent:</b> Sunday, July 02, 2017 2:59 PM<br>
<b>To:</b> Steve Brown <<a href="mailto:sgb@pics.com" target="_blank">sgb@pics.com</a>><br>
<b>Cc:</b> <a href="mailto:xymon@xymon.com" target="_blank">xymon@xymon.com</a><br>
<b>Subject:</b> Re: [Xymon] Powershell external scripts</span><span lang="EN-GB"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;margin-bottom:12.0pt">The "<externalscriptlocation>" is the folder where the scripts are located. They can be written in anything you like.<span lang="EN-GB"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto">On Thu, Jun 29, 2017 at 11:13 PM, Steve Brown <<a href="mailto:sgb@pics.com" target="_blank">sgb@pics.com</a>> wrote:<span lang="EN-GB"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto">Hi,<span lang="EN-GB"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto">What format to external scripts <externalscriptlocation> need to be? Can they be windows bat files or do they need to be powershell .ps1 scripts or something else?<span lang="EN-GB"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto">Thanks<span lang="EN-GB"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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