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Restart Service if down

Has anyone been able to restart the service if its down?

I created an action to execute an external program that looks something like this

"sc.exe \\${Node.DNS} start ${ApplicationName}" now if it actually type that in a cmd prompt and substitute Node.DNS for the DNS name of the server with the application down, and substitute ApplicationName for the name of the service Im trying to start it works. However it does not seem to be working through Orion.

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ceclark

Is sc.exe in your path? I'm not sure where the script is run from, but you might want to try and use the full path to sc.exe.

JustinY

I got a reply from support. You currently cannot pass variables to an external program as parameters.

FormerMember

Justin, did support say when the functionality might be added? 8.5 or 8.6?

aLTeReGo

I got a reply from support. You currently cannot pass variables to an external program as parameters.

That's pretty disappointing. I'm also interested in this functionality.

WINNT

You can pass variables to external programs. This has worked at least since v7. I have done this with sc.exe. Let me know if you need the syntax.

EMetro

on a similar note...

My situation is that I know the application that launches the process and wish to "launch external application" by way of an advanced alert. When I choose, "launch external application", It only seems to like apps located on the polling machine. I can't navigate through the "My Network Places" to find it, and entering a string using the IP doesn't seem to work.

I think I might be having a holiday brain failure, but I welcome any help that might be given.

Any ideas?