How do I run a script that is local on the remote server?

Question

Hi everyone

I am trying to setup a custom monitor for the remote Unix host.

What I want to do is to run a command on the remote server using SAM. That command will execute a perl script that is already on the remote server's /tmp

Just cannot work out how to do it =( If I pick anything Perl/script related in the templates, it tries to upload that script to the remote server.

Due to security policies I do not want Solarwinds user that will run that command to have rights to upload things. I just want to execute this:

>shell perl /tmp/test.pl

I tried the command via putty and under the user that SolarWinds will run it as, and I get the output that I need:

>shell perl /tmp/test.pl

Statistic: -0.002

Done

But how do I set it up in SAM to just run the command without trying to upload a script?

Thank you

mesverrum · Answer

SAM doesn't work that way, their script based monitors will always attempt to copy a script.

As workarounds I've had them copy tiny dummy scripts over that were just a place holder while in the command line section I actually put in the shell commands to launch scripts that already exist locally on the server, and you can specify the working directory to use and lock it down so that the service account only has permission to write to the specified path.