Triggered condition = PowerShell response

Checking in with the community to see if I'm crazy. We have a pool of 1000 Windows servers. If any of the server's C drive is more than 90% full, an automated response would be triggered and kick off a disk cleanup PowerShell script that would clear generic "safe" locations. If after this action is run and if the condition still exists we would then send an alert for support staff intervention. This and other types of actions corrected by PowerShell scripts , ie, restart a service, kill a process are the goal in providing automated responses. All scripts would be on a central server share available to all servers via the network, not on each individual server.

I think this is a common use case. Can anyone in the community confirm they are doing this and let me know if it works? Any caveats?

Many thanks in advance!

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bobmarley

That is doable however you will may run into issues with rights on the remote servers. You can add machines as accounts, same as you would add users. The script will run as the Orion servers system account so add your Orion server to the appropriate group on the remote machine and it will be able to run on the remote server. At least that is how I got around it.

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daku97

Thanks bobmarley. I was forced to ask this question in this forum because Tech support would not provide simple yes or no answer. I don't know why it was so hard but after opening a case and getting absolutely nowhere, my team and I have found the answer. We will be posting our solution so no one else need to go through this pain. If it helps one person, I'll be very happy.

Thanks