O&O Syspectr provides a very easy way to run PowerShell scripts on remote computers and store and evaluate the results centrally in O&O Syspectr. It does not matter if the computer is connected to the network or part of a specific domain or work group. The times when you had to file logs of PowerShell scripts on a file server and evaluate them laboriously is a thing of the past. O&O Syspectr monitors your systems and notifies you as soon as a script identifies a problem - 24 hours, 7 days a week. This not only saves time, money and nerves, but also a lot of money. Actually, PowerShell works in O&O Syspectr just as if you were working directly on the computer. In addition, O&O Syspectr offers the evaluation of the outcome of the PowerShell script and scheduling, as you may know from Linux crontab. This makes it possible to execute PowerShell scripts at specific times, without having to use the Windows Task Scheduler. With the help of the PowerShell scripting app, you are no longer bound to the restrictions of popular IT monitoring solutions. It is finally possible to customize and extend your wishes according to your IT monitoring!
PowerShell scripts can be fully managed in O&O Syspectr via the web application. You can create, edit, activate and deactivate, and delete scripts. In other words, you can create, edit and see the results of a script for one of your computers from virtually anywhere in the world. Scripts that you have created once, can be applied to any other computer.
Each script gives provides a result value (so-called. exit code) at the end. This value influences the status of your computer and is interpreted as follows:
At the same time, the latest issue line of your script is up to 2,048 characters long and stored and recorded in the history of your computer. Of course, you can subscribe to an alert that sends you the exit code and that issue via mail. That way you can see see immediately, if an automated script signals a warning or an issue.
The execution of scripts is possible as follows:
If the user-defined execution is enabled, the scripts can be run automatically. The line consists of the following 5 fields: [Minutes] [hours] [days] [months] [weekdays]
| Field | Valid values | Notes |
|---|---|---|
| minutes | 0...59 | * for every minute | |
| hours | 0...23 | * for every hour | |
| days | 1...31 | * for every day | If days abd weekdays are used together, then they are evaluated together, but individually (see special case in the examples) |
| months | 1...12 | * for every month | |
| weekdays | 0...7 | * for each weekday | 0 or 7 stand for Sunday |
| [minutes] | [hours] | [days] | [months] | [Weekdays] | Explanation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 10 | 0 | * | * | * | Every day at ten minutes past midnight. |
| 10 | 0 | * | * | 3 | Every Wednesday, at ten minutes past midnight. |
| 0 | * | * | * | * | Every day, every hour |
| */15 | 4-16 | * | * | 6.7 | Every 15 minutes between 4 a.m. and 4 p.m., but only on Saturdays and Sundays. |
| * | * | * | * | * | Every minute (minimum setting option) |
| * | 14 | 1-10 | 5 | 1 | In May from 1st to 10th and every Monday in May at 2 p.m.; this is a special case when days and days of the week are used together. |
The PowerShell is available in different versions. To find out which version is installed on your system, you can investigate using O&O Syspectr in the Dashboard. Basically: - Version 1.0 is obsolete and should no longer be used.
The different versions have partly different syntax and functions so that adjustments to the scripts for each version may be necessary.
The script library is the central location for your PowerShell scripts. All scripts are stored here and can be edited, deleted and assigned to computers or even revoked. If you want to create a new script, simply click on the appropriate button. You can also find information here on the creation date of scripts and when they were last edited.
Always give your scripts a descriptive name! You can choose any name you like, it will not subsequently be used as the filename for the execution of the script. This file name is assigned by the system independently.
Entering PowerShell scripts is done through a text editor. This helps you when entering a script by using a so-called Syntax Highlighting. This means that the relevant keywords of PowerShell are color highlighted. You can edit as much as you like in the way you no doubt know from other text editors, and you can also paste scripts from your clipboard or enter excerpts from your computer in the textbox.
With the execution, you determine when the script should be executed on the target machine. You have the following options:
By saving the script it will either be executed immediately or activated once you select it. For manual scripts (default setting), the scripts are only executed when you explicitly request it.