Scheduled Tasks (schtasks.exe) and APM Script issue

I've already contacted Solarwinds support and didn't get anywhere. I was referred from support to the forums, which seems a little backwords to me. Either way, here is my issue/question. Why would a remote schtasks request not work through APM, but a local one will. Specifying credentials doesn't help either. Any ideas or suggestions are welcome.

Non-working (requires {$IP} argument):

Dim WshShell,oExec

strPC = Wscript.Arguments(0)
Set WshShell = CreateObject("WScript.Shell")
Set oExec = WshShell.Exec("schtasks /query /fo list /v /s " & strPC)

strHold = oExec.StdOut.ReadAll
strHold = Replace(strHold,Chr(10),"<br> ")

WScript.Echo "Message:" & strHold
WScript.Echo "Statistic:0"

WScript.Quit(SUCCESS)

Working:

Dim WshShell,oExec
Set WshShell = CreateObject("WScript.Shell")
Set oExec = WshShell.Exec("schtasks /query /fo list /v")

strHold = oExec.StdOut.ReadAll
strHold = Replace(strHold,Chr(10),"<br> ")

WScript.Echo "Message:" & strHold
WScript.Echo "Statistic:0"

WScript.Quit(SUCCESS)

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qle

Perhaps the script isn't running under the proper credentials? Could you modify the script to echo the credentials it's running under?

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qle

Perhaps the script isn't running under the proper credentials? Could you modify the script to echo the credentials it's running under?

rsfh_b

I feel a bit silly, but that was the issue. I didn't assign the template any credentials, so it was using SYSTEM. The SYSTEM account apparently doesn't have permissions across machines.

Thank you for the help!