Cptrico

This is my second plugin for PCM Recently I had the opportunity to work with couchbase and memcached services. For those of you not knowing what it is, it’s a key value store or maybe more known as a NoSQL. So I thought that it would be helpfull to have a tool that could test and monitor the service I was setting up. So now i want to share this with you, hoping it can be useful to others that are working with couchbase. More information about Couchbase here: http://www.couchbase.com/ Main features are: Test store, retrieve, touch and remove operations. Support both couchbase and memcached buckets. Test with predefined key and value, or use input control. Run monitoring on the bucket, sending a notification if any error is detected while reading/writing to it. Set monitoring to start during plugin startup. Allow the flushAll command, option to require password to run the command can be enabled. All config changes are applied instantly, no restart required. Click here to download version 1.0 Let me know what you think

Hi all, POTS for PCM v.1.3 came with support for input controls. Now in v.1.4 there is support for “partial input controls”. And what does that mean. It means that it is now possible to have a script that can run with or without all input controls assigned. Let’s think of a script where running it with only one input control, will generate a different output than running it with 3 or all assigned input controls. This makes it possible to create very flexible scripts that can take different parameters. Also it is now possible to set the log level of the plugin in the configuration manager. Check it out, and as always please report back to me if you have any questions or good ideas for improvements. Cheers.

Hi Guys, I agree that GP is properly the easiest way or a powershell script remoting to all servers and changeing the version. What would be cool I think is to have a plugin repo of plugins available in a section of PCM manager. There you could select what plugins your wanted, basically what is there now just extended a bit. They are then downloaded and you could set an option to auto update in the future just like PCM or set it to manual. It of course requires that PCM want to have this download traffic on their servers, they have the zip packages already so!? And to have this feature, people making their own plugins would have to join the community and upload it to repo to benefit. But we all do that already. Cheers.

Thank you... for the support

Hi all, Now finally I have released version 1.3 that supports PCM API 3.0 Input controls A whole new range of scripts can now be created and executed from within POTS. Go and check it out http://forum.pulseway.com/topic/274-poweroftheshell-plugin-13/#entry1117 Please let me know if you have any questions for this build, or you experience any problems. Thanks again for using my plugin. Cheers

Hi There, there is a guide right here on how to install to a CORE system. http://forum.pulseway.com/topic/3-windows-2008-r2-server-core-installation/

Hi Ollie, If you download the .NET client plugin example from http://www.mobilepcm.../netplugins.zip And see in the ComputerDetails.cs file, you will find a good example on creating mulitple pages and also commands to be executed. If you still have questions after, just let me know.

Hi Ollie, Looks really good. Will try out your scripts also And thanks. Brgrds Johnni

Hi Shivam, Could you maybe come with some examples on what is not there as you expect it to be The package has not been changed recently. brgrds Johnni

Glad that it works for you. I am always a sucker for a god script, so I will say yes please :-) share either here or post a link to the scripts. The bigger repo we can gather the better Cheers.

Hi there, You need to always point to a ps1 script in the path. What ever you put in that script will pe parsed and run. The reason that the write-host cmdlet is not working is that as you know it writes to the host console ;-), which is not there since we use a plugin to run the code. You can put what ever code you want in the ps1 script, please see the script pack for a lot of examples and how to format the output for PCM. Thanks for using the plugin. Best regards Johnni

Hi, Could it be that the computer your are trying to suspend doesn't have the device your are running the command from as trusted? If so you will just se the command sent, but it does not have the rights to carry it out.

Glad that it worked for you You cannot use write-host to display a variable as you normally do when running it in powershell prompt, since there is no shell to write to when inside of POTS. Use the script samples provided they will give you an idea on how the scripts should look. Should be very easy to convert your output from one to another. If you have some specific code you want to have help with just let me know

Hi There, Thanks for using POTS. Paul is right. POTS are looking for the config.xml file (as the only one) in the same directory as you installed the plugin and loaded it in PCM. The config examples provided is just that exactly, you can make your own or use one of them as a template and then rename it to config.xml. This will be the one active.

I encourage all to advertise a little bit for PC monitor on e.g Facebook or linkedIn. The more users, the bigger community we can build, and great ideas are shared.

Maybe maybe not. I have an app on my iPhone that have a local db that has cached the info of my 3000+ movies and series, no problem. So maybe these few informations could be saved, should not be a performance problem thats for sure. And if you don't have password on the app then yes you can see the latest info, but again also all new if there IS access to the server. I recommend start up password to all. Dont know, just an idea

Hi Marius, Just a thought.. Would it by any chance be possible to save this information on a local sqlliteDb on the mpbile device it self, so it don't need to be stored on your servers. For every request a thread updates the gui and another update the db, if computer is not available the last saved information is shown together with a last updated date time. Don't know if it is possible to achive on the phones. ;-)

Hi Marius, Tried the beta yesterday, great work One thing I noticed is that it was not possible to stop it again( at least i could not find it ), would be great if it was possible to stop it gracefully instead of having to kill the process.

Hi there. One solution could be: Since you are using dell servers then I would go for using it assist essential if you don't already have it. This will generate an alarm which can be send on email / SMS / trap what ever you have. If you are running windows it will log to the event log also the "system administrator managed node" and PCM can then check for events from the system administror software and send a notification. If running Linux the it assistant essential can also run commands/scripts that could trigger a notification to PCM.

Hi Paul, Glad that you could use some of it It's strange that you are having these issues then. I think when I created the two scripts I was on Windows 7, so they should defiently also work there(workstation), so properly also on Server 2008R2, which Nick123 also confirms this in his post. http://forum.pulseway.com/topic/319-session-control-plugin/page__view__findpost__p__1389 Let me know if I can assist in anyway.

Hi Paul, Maybe you can gather som inspiration from the openFiles and openSessions scripts in the powerOfTheShell script pack. Then you can maybe get it too work for workstation also. Best regards Johnni

Hi Paul I am obvious a fan of plugins. but creating a plugin here for this when PCM can do 80% of the stuff requested only missing the trigger to be added to the rules. I think it would be wrong to create a plugin takeing features out of the main product. So I agree it is possible to do and if it will not be implemented by PCM devs then it's up to the user to add it if they want it. But for now I would wait and see. Cheers.

Hi, For now until other triggers are implemented you can get the notifications you want and then take action by running the poweroftheshell plugin, creating a script that suspends the machine mentioned in the notification. Then if you have WOL enable you can start it again from PCM also

Hi, Thanks for using the plugin sorry for the name confusion Paul is digbyp I just sometimes have used digbyp and some times Paul. But it is the same person. Not that I don't want to give Paul Csiki credit he has made some cool plugins. But in this case it is Paul Digby. Think I will go for last name for now on

Hi Paul If you look in the zip you will actually see that you have the release folder that includes a very simple XML with only one script to try out. If you know the plugin and want to go full Monty. Then you can just use the script pack with a lot of scripts to try out