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Delete files with alert action

spyfly

I am trying to delete files on a computer with an alert action, because trying to delete Windows\Temp files when the disk space on a set of our machines gets over 90%

I sent an action to use a VB Script, however I am very confused where I should place the script so that orion can run on it

here is a screen shot of the action

and here is the script

Const DeleteReadOnly = TRUE

Set objFSO = CreateObject("Scripting.FileSystemObject")
objFSO.DeleteFile("C:\Windows\Temp\*"), DeleteReadOnly
objFSO.DeleteFolder("C:\Windows\Temp\*"),DeleteReadOnly

I have tried to place the script on a network share as well and it does not appear to work.

Thanks

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nathan.hejnicki

Typically you'd just place it somewhere on the same drive as the SolarWinds install, not a lot else needs to be done. It can be on other drives too, it just needs to be stored locally on the SolarWinds poller. What is not working about it currently? Any error messages?

Nathan Hejnicki

Loop1 Systems

spyfly

Nathan,

I don't see any errors, it says the action ran successfully however the files are still there and the disk space usage is over 90% still

Thanks

Richie

nathan.hejnicki

If you run the script by itself from the command line, does it work then? Trying to determine if the issue lies with Orion/how you're calling the script, or the script itself.

Nathan Hejnicki

Loop1 Systems

LadaVarga

Hello,

1. LocalUser or system user is not able interact with system.

2. I recommend to change SolarWinds Module engine service (it is execution actions) to run under(Log ON) some Administrator account.

You can look on my simple video How to do that:

https://youtu.be/0WyBcmvmUsI

spyfly

I am trying now to use a bat file I figured it does not get easier then that, I can get the files to delete via running the bat script on my test machine no issues.

I have the program to run as an AD domain account, again it says it is running successfully in Orion (guessing this means that the program is triggered) but the files are still there.

Where do I look for errors?

spyfly

nathan.hejnicki when I run the VB Script locally I do get an permission error

blsanner

Is that the entire script? I'll be honest, I haven't done much in VB. But, from the way it looks, it is only going to delete the files from the temp directory on the Solarwinds poller.

spyfly

So I got the bat script "file" to work as I want it to act when running it locally on the machine and as stated by the SolarWinds Docs I placed the bat script in a folder on my main orion poller "E:\Script\DeleteWindowsTemp.bat and setup an action but it does nothing when I run it against my test machine a Windows 7 Smartboard aka Mondopad

blsanner

What I was referring to above is that the script does indeed run on the Solarwinds poller. It doesn't get pushed to the remote server and executed. So, if there is nothing in the script to tell it to connect to the remote server, all of the actions it takes are going to be on the polling engine server itself. You will need to update the script to connect to the remote server and execute the commands. You could use variables such as ${IP} in the script as well. Another option may be to simply update the script with a UNC patch instead of C:\... if VB allows it. Something like \\${IP}\C$\Windows\Temp\*