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Automation & Alerting training and support-related archives from inside the ControlUp Community on Slack.

New “Group” Feature in ControlUp Script Creation Page Explored

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Users were discussing a new "group" feature in script creation that allows them to assign scripts to a role and limit the access users in that role have to certain scripts. There is also the ability to filter in the devices overview and multi select and run scripts against these. The same term "group" is used elsewhere, causing confusion, and @member was asked for input regarding customizing the group name and being able to target scripts against devices in a group or tag.

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Automating a Reboot with Two Triggers in ControlUp

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A user was looking for a way to reboot a server after an Event Viewer error had triggered maintenance mode and logged out all users. It was suggested to use two triggers - the first would put the server into maintenance mode and set a registry key, and the second would check the registry key and if it was present, reboot the server. The use of a PowerShell script was offered to create the registry key in the first trigger. To ensure that only servers with the 1005 error code were rebooted, the registry key would need to be checked.

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Options to Monitor Missing Services in ControlUp 8.8

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A user asked for options to monitor whether a service is missing, and was suggested to use the new service triggers in ControlUp 8.8. This can be done by monitoring the service stop and not configured status, and including the checkmark for just discovered machines. The user faced difficulty with slower login times and broken communications with banking apps due to their security groups not following vendor AV recommendations.

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How to Send Messages Based on FSLogix Triggers

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A user wanted to send a message to the user whose disk had low profile space using an FSLogix trigger, but the script action for this couldn't be used. Oliver suggested creating a trigger for disk space and then using a script follow-up action to find the user GUID/key, followed by a send message action. He also suggested using Powershell to get the session ID of the user and using the MSG.exe native functionality to send a message to a specific session, if multiple users were using the same machine. Dennis suggested adding a filter for FSLogix Disk Type to the Trigger filter editor, and Nicholas linked a script that is helpful for single session setup. The roadmap also includes FSLogix disks per user.

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Why isn’t the Citrix VM maintenance mode trigger activating when local storage falls below a certain capacity?

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A user had set up a trigger to put a virtual machine into Citrix Maintenance Mode when local storage D:\ was below X GB, but it was not working. Another user shared screenshots of their own working trigger configuration and suggested the user upgrade to the latest ControlUp version. They also proposed trying a script that drains and reboots the server instead of putting it into Maintenance Mode. The latest ControlUp version was already being used.

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