Monitor Windows Scheduled Tasks under Main Task Library and other Sub-Folders

I wanted to add to this as I have a need to monitor scheduled tasks in SolarWinds and the built in functionality isn't sufficient. This code is not complete, but I think it can provide a good starting point for anyone else needing to do something similiar. You could turn it into a function and pass the tasks names you want to check for in as an argument, create a custom PSObject to gather properties from both $maincommand and $ScheduledTasks, etc....

Once I complete my monitor I'll probably create a post with the full breakdown.

# Getting variables ready

$FoundTask = @()

$BadTasks = @()

$GoodTasks = @()

[DateTime]$CurrentDate = Get-Date

$stat1=$stat2=0;

$mess1=$mess2="";

# Task names we want to check

$TaskNamesToCheck = 'Adamj Clean-WSUS' , 'Decline-PreviewUpdates'

# Try/Catch to see if we can get the scheduled tasks

Try {

    # Getting all scheduled tasks and excluding disabled ones

    $AllTasks = Get-scheduledTask | where-object {($_.State -ne "Disabled") -and (!$_.Hidden)}

}

    Catch {

        Write-Host "Message.BadTasks: $($Error[0])";

        Write-Host "Statistic.BadTasks: -1";

        Exit 1

    }

# Only getting ones that have a future run time

$ScheduledTasks = $AllTasks | Get-ScheduledTaskInfo | where-object {$_.NextRunTime -gt $CurrentDate}

# Filtering out the ones we wanted to check for

ForEach ($ThisTask in $ScheduledTasks) {

    ForEach ($ThisTaskToCheck in $TaskNamesToCheck) {

        $entry = $ThisTask | Where-Object {$_.TaskName -eq $ThisTaskToCheck}

        $FoundTask += $entry

    }

}

# Checking out our task results. Needs more testing to see if a task in a running state shows 0

ForEach ($ThisTask in $FoundTask) {

    switch ($ThisTask.LastTaskResult) {

        {$_ -eq '0'} `

            {$GoodTasks += $ThisTask}

        {$_ -ne '0'} `

            {$BadTasks += $ThisTask}

    }

}

# Populating our variables to write out in SolarWinds

$mess1 = $GoodTasks.TaskName -join ', '

$stat1 = ($GoodTasks | Measure-Object).count

$mess2 = $BadTasks.TaskName -join ', '

$stat2 = ($BadTasks | Measure-Object).count

# Writing the results out for SolarWinds

Write-Host "Message.GoodTasks: Tasks in a good state: $mess1";

Write-Host "Statistic.GoodTasks: $stat1";

Write-Host "Message.BadTasks: Tasks in a bad state: $mess2";

Write-Host "Statistic.BadTasks: $stat2";

# Hey, we made it this far. Let's give SolarWinds a happy exit code

exit 0

Thanks for your feedback and enhancement.

Hey mmorrison - was wondering if you ever got around to creating a full breakdown for this?

Thanks!