Alerts that execute perl

You could enable Windows auditing on the Perl exe and the script to see if they are getting accessed by the application.

Have you tried executing the action simulation from within the alert's trigger actions?

My first guess would be that either a path is different and needs to be updated in the alert's trigger action, or at the top of each of the Perl scripts.

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Thanks so much for the reply.

How would I turn on the windows auditing on Perl exe?

I have run the simulation and it comes back with action executed successfully.

Many Thanks.

This link has a quick walk through on enabling file auditing. You'd want to enable it for success and failures on the actual Perl exe file.
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When you simulate, does the script provide the intended results, aside from the success message? Does it pull down the configs, etc?

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I will review the link about enabling file auditing, thanks for providing.

The simulation does not provide the intended results.  I did get an Event Message after running the simulation (screen shot below).  Not sure if this provides any value but thought I would show. 

Thanks.

I setup the windows audit and when I run a simulation I see the perl.exe file being accessed in the Windows Security Logs.  Now it seems I must discover what is failing or not working with the .pl file.  I am new to perl and ActivePerl so I am not sure how to see why the script is not completing or what in the script is failing.  Would there be any log files associated to ActivePerl?  I have tried to duplicate everything from the old server on the new server like Environment Variables, script paths, etc.

Thanks.

Not a solution to your problem but I've had similar problems often enough that whenever I write scripts these days I always include a chunk of boilerplate code to make sure it writes a log output somewhere.   So many hours wasted trying to reverse engineer scripts that I find laying around on client systems.

These are scripts that have been inherited and the author is no longer with our company.  All the scripts have been working for years but we just moved over to new Servers (windows 2012 to 2016) and updated NPM (12.1 to 12.5) these scripts are not working.  I think I have been able to determine that the script is being called as it should (by doing the windows auditing) so it would be great to somehow have some log output to help see what is going on in the script is called.  I do not have any real perl experience so I am not sure how to include boilerplate code.

Many Thanks.

My comment was a more general quip to everyone out there building scripts that someone will eventually have to troubleshoot.

For some rudimentary debugging you can just look here for the syntax on writing the outputs to a text file and that way after the file gets called you can read the logs and see what it got.

Writing to files with Perl

I'd do something like roll through the code and just have it print out the contents of every variable and the results of every action as it goes until you see where it's breaking.

I'd second mesverrum​. You are basically into debugging your script now. Perl is really modular, so it is possible that you don't have all of the same Perl modules installed on the new server that you had on the old. Perl could be running an different version and some of the commands in the script could be deprecated as well.

Yes it looks like it may be Perl module related.  The old server had ActivePerl 5.1.42 and now it looks like 5.26 or 5.28 are available.  I am having trouble getting some of the modules needed installed for both 5.26 and 5.28.  The following are the modules being called.  I have been able to get Net::Telnet:Cisco and MIME::Lite installed but having trouble getting Win32::Env.  I have tried using cpan and Win32::Env fails with dependencies of Win32::Console and Win32::TieRegistry.  I have tried to cpan install both those modules but does not seem to complete.  I am also having trouble getting ppm installed and I have not had any luck building a configuration on the ActiveState fork custom build.  I keep getting an unable to build the distributions for this project when I select the Win32 modules to be included in the build.

use warnings;

use strict;

use Net::Telnet::Cisco;

use DBI;

use MIME::Lite;

use Win32::Env;

use IO::Handle;

Any ideas or pointers on how to get these modules installed or what ActivePerl version would be recommended?

Thanks.