How to monitor Windows Scheduled Tasks in Geneos

The most efficient way to do this is by using a toolkit script.

The toolkit script will use the "schtasks.exe" native windows program and add a VB script container for the output.

The toolkit configuration is as follows:

Sampler template

<sampler name="Scheduled Tasks">
     <sampleInterval>
         <data>600</data>
     </sampleInterval>
     <var-hideColumns>
         <data>
             <column>
                 <data>Power Management</data>
             </column>
             <column>
                 <data>Delete Task If Not Rescheduled</data>
             </column>
             <column>
                 <data>Repeat: Until: Time</data>
             </column>
             <column>
                 <data>Repeat: Until: Duration</data>
             </column>
             <column>
                 <data>Repeat: Stop If Still Running</data>
             </column>
             <column>
                 <data>Repeat: Every</data>
             </column>
             <column>
                 <data>Schedule</data>
             </column>
         </data>
     </var-hideColumns>
     <plugin>
         <toolkit>
             <samplerScript>
                 <data>c:\Windows\System32\cscript.exe /nologo taskscript.vbs</data>
             </samplerScript>
             <script>
                 <contents>
                     <data>function extractFieldValue(line)
 s = split(line,":",2)
 str = Replace(s(1), ",", ";")
 extractFieldValue = trim(str)
 end function
   
 function extractFieldName(line)
 s = split(line,":",2)
 str = Replace(s(0), ",", ";")
 extractFieldName = trim(str)
 end function
   
 jobfilter = "Task"
   
   
 '***** Run the command
   
 Set WshShell = WScript.CreateObject("WScript.Shell")
 Set oExec = WshShell.Exec("c:\windows\system32\schtasks.exe /query /fo list /v")
   
 newline = ""
 header = ""
 first = 1
   
 '***** Process the output
 Do While oExec.StdOut.AtEndOfStream <> True
   
 sline=oExec.StdOut.ReadLine
   
   
 if sline = "" then 
 '****This is the line break
 if newline <> "" then
   
 if first = 1 and header <> "" then
 '**** Print column headers
   
 header = left(header,len(header)-1)
 wscript.echo header
 header = ""
 first = 0
 end if
   
 '***Remove last comma
 newline = left(newline,len(newline)-1)
   
 if(InStr(newline,jobfilter) > 0) then
 wscript.echo newline
 end if
   
 newline = ""
   
   
 end if
   
 elseif (InStr(1, sline,"Folder:") > 0) or (InStr(1, sline,"INFO:") > 0) then
   
 'wscript.echo "folder"
   
 else
   
 newline = newline & extractFieldValue(sline) & ","
   
 if first = 1 then
 header = header & extractFieldName(sline) & ","
 'wscript.echo header
 end if
   
 'wscript.echo extractFieldValue(sline)
   
 end if
   
 Loop</data>
                 </contents>
                 <filename>
                     <data>taskscript.vbs</data>
                 </filename>
             </script>
         </toolkit>
     </plugin>
     <dataviews>
         <dataview name="Scheduled Tasks">
             <firstColumn>
                 <create>
                     <columnName>Long Task Name</columnName>
                     <combineColumns>
                         <column>HostName</column>
                         <literal> </literal>
                         <column>TaskName</column>
                     </combineColumns>
                 </create>
             </firstColumn>
         </dataview>
     </dataviews>
 </sampler>

You will notice that there is a jobfilter = "Task" line in the script code. You can either remove / comment-out this line if you'd like to view all jobs or if needed, filter to a specific set task name. Removing this will display all scheduled tasks in the system.

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