The ability to perform any number of capabilities within the Execute External Program and Execute VBScript has meant so much can be achieved as an alert action.
PowerShell is now ubiquitous for Windows scripting and I feel it would be better to have a native PowerShell alert action method available in the Alerting engine in Orion. Currently, you can execute PowerShell scripts, but this requires a PS1 script being created, saved on the primary Orion server (i.e. only available on the file system for editing) and the use of the Execute External Program to reference the PowerShell command line interface to run the PS1 script. This works and works well enough.
However, it would be great to have a more controllable interface, which provides not only the ability to enter the script content in the Orion alert UI, but also to have form files for action control, such as:
- Script body
- Script Arguments - pass parameters to the script
- Execution mode
- Impersonate and Credential selection
Mark Roberts
Prosperon - UK SolarWinds Partners
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