


Schedule the action by selecting Time of Day > Use special Time of Day schedule for this action. See Secure external programs and script alerting actions for details. SolarWinds recommends that you create tailored low-privilege accounts on the machine to run specific external programs, scripts, and alert actions. Select the account for running the action. Enter the Network path to the external VB Script in the field provided.įor example: Use c:\test.vbs, where c:\ is the disk on your main Orion poller and test.vbs is your external VB Script to be executed.Select a VB Script Interpreter from the drop down list.


Under Execute an External VB Script settings:.Select the Execute an External VB Script option, then click Configure Action.When editing or adding an alert, click Add Action in the Trigger or Reset Action section of the Alert Wizard.SolarWinds recommends that scripts and batch files be placed on the root of c:\ to simplify the path for the batch file. See Approve alert actions executing a script. You can check the action status in the Action Manager (group by Needs Approval). When you configure a new execute action, notify your SolarWinds Platform server administrator. Starting with 2023.2, new actions of this type require an approval by a system administrator. In some situations, you may want to execute a Visual Basic (VB) script when a network event occurs to perform a specific action. The problem is that the Just-In-Time debugger doesn't start.This SolarWinds Platform topic applies only to the following products: The script is executed and fails as expected at line 2 but I started the command line (cmd.exe) and entered cscript.exe /x "C:\.\Script2.vbs I have created the file Script2.vbs with this very simple script: a=1 I ran all the following steps as administrator. I did the very basic installation with only one additional component, the Just-In-Time debugger. I'd like to find a free solution to debug vbscripts, and I tried Visual Studio 2019 Community Edition.
