Run a powershell script on a DOWN alert

neilgmt

Wondering if someone could possibly assist.

We have in place the Errors in Application Event Log, which is assigned to 9 servers.

This polls every 2 minutes and looks for a custom event id of 100.  If EventID 100 is found then an active alert is sent out via email, stating that it has occurred.

This eventid relates to a process in our business that is causing major issues within IIS, we have narrowed down a quick fix which is a recycle of a certain Application Pool within IIS.

But I am now wondering is there a way of getting a powershell script to run once the active alert is triggered that will then go off and recycle the faulting app pool?

We already have a powershell script to use but wonder how we could attach this to an active alert.

Thanks

Neil

aLTeReGo

In the Trigger Action of the Advanced Alert add a new action type of "Execute an external program". In the program to execute type in "PowerShell" and the rest of the command line arguments such as the powershell command to execute or the path to your powershell script. Below is an example that terminates all running instances of notepad.exe. Please note that you'll need to enable impersonation through your PowerShell script or run the Advanced Alert Manager under a user account with elevated privileges as discussed in this thread.