Community
- Command Central
- MVP Program
- Monthly Mission
- Blogs
- Groups
- Events
- Media Vault
Products
- Observability
- Network Management
- Application Management
- IT Security
- IT Service Management
- System Management
- Database Management
Content Exchange
- SolarWinds Platform
- Server & Application Monitor
- Database Performance Analyzer
- Server Configuration Monitor
- Network Performance Monitor
- Network Configuration Manager
- SQL Sentry
- Web Help Desk
Free Tools & Trials

New Template from SolarWinds: Run 3rd-party applications

Find more posts tagged with

Accepted answers

All comments

This looks useful Denny but I haven't tried it quite yet. Gotta copy down the proper syntax when using this template according to your notes. Would you consider adding a description/notes field to the template so that this kind of information could be stored with the template?

FormerMember

Would you consider adding a description/notes field to the template so that this kind of information could be stored with the template?

Great idea. It's already in the code for the next version.

qle

Nice, thanks Denny. Along the same lines, what's the possibility of increasing the size of the script body field.

I know its purpose is not for someone to create new scripts in it. However, if we're importing templates, the small size of the field makes it hard to get an understanding of what the script is doing. Yeah, I know we could simply copy and paste into a text editor but I figured I throw it out there as a suggestion.

FormerMember

Got it. Fair criticism. It won't be fixed in the next release, but it will get fixed.

cathscourfield

Am I right in thinking that this script creates a notepad.exe process - what is the purpose of this, just to confirm that the process is able to start? Therefore if I change it from notepad.exe to a program I wish to monitor, then I am confirming that the program is able to launch?

Also I've noticed that the process isn't killed after - I've just killed off about 30 notepad.exe processes in task manager - is this supposed to happen??

Cheers

Cath

FormerMember

Am I right in thinking that this script creates a notepad.exe process - what is the purpose of this, just to confirm that the process is able to start? Therefore if I change it from notepad.exe to a program I wish to monitor, then I am confirming that the program is able to launch?

Notepad.exe is just an example. Replace it with any executable. It's a very generic script, so the potential purposes to which it can be put are broad.

cathscourfield

Notepad.exe is just an example. Replace it with any executable. It's a very generic script, so the potential purposes to which it can be put are broad.

ok thanks, so I can use it to check that an executable is able to be launched. Can you give any examples of how else it might be used??

But any processes started by the executable seem to carry on running - like I said before, I have multiple notepad.exe processes running now (from testing the script on my PC) - I wouldn't want to do this on a server and eat up all the resources. Is there something I have configured wrong?

Thanks

FormerMember

You might use it to launch a batch file that stops itself. Using it to launch an EXE that won't stop itself probably isn't useful.