Checking for the existence of a registry key

Hello,

Couldn't find the answer I was looking for so thought I'd post:

We have a Nokia mobile phone connected to our Orion server. The phone needs to be plugged in and set to Nokia mode for SMS alerts to be sent. I would like to write an alert that flags when the phone is not plugged in, or plugged in and not set to Nokia mode.

I have established that the below registry key with a value of '1' only exists when the phone is in the correct state. I need to write some kind of (vb?) script which checks for this registry key and alerts when the value is '0' instead of '1'.

So:

[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control\DeviceClasses\{a5dcbf10-6530-11d2-901f-00c04fb951ed}\##?#USB#Vid_0421&Pid_04f9#5&30b657e0&0&1#{a5dcbf10-6530-11d2-901f-00c04fb951ed}\Control]
"ReferenceCount"=dword:00000001
- means that the phone is connected

Any help appreciated.

Cheers

Dave

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MikeAsthalter

Hello Dave,

There are some vbscript examples at the following location that you might find helpful for reading registry values:

http://activexperts.com/activmonitor/windowsmanagement/adminscripts/registry/

You could use the Windows Script Monitor to run your script and then write the Statistic field appropriately depending on the value of the key you read. For example, you could write the statistic as 1 to indicate the phone is not in the correct state and 0 to indicate that it is in the correct state. Then set your critical threshold to greater than 0 in order to be alerted when the phone is not in the correct state.