Add output of a command to an action

Question

Hi all,

I've seen that with other modules installed it might be possible to add the output of a triggered command to another one, but is it possible to do with NPM/NCM?

We would like to run a powershell script and have the output appended to an e-mail, is this possible? Can the output of the script be added to some property of the alert?

Thank you

swptout · Answer

I only have NPM and NCM so without SAM I guess this can't be done...

Wish they could add this feature to NPM also as we have many Windows Servers being monitored and really need this basic feature.

jrouviere · Answer

With SAM I would say just use a script monitor which you can pull that data into alerts directly.

With NCM the Execute an NCM Action" alert action already does this, notes from the action itself: "Results of this action will be stored in the ${Notes} variable"

With NPM there are some actions that will add to the alert notes, but the one that came immediately to mind would be the Real Time Process Explorer so now that I type that out it might be SAM really as well.

If you do have NPM set to run an external program/script you can likely do this, but it would require writing your own code to put the results into the Notes field of the alert via SWIS/the SDK. That's what comes to mind now, but maybe I haven't had enough coffee.

swptout · Answer

Anyone has had this requirement?

Thanks