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Script to restart Pulseway on demand


ethorup

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Small Correction: The scheduled task can be run on demand, but by default it restarts the pulseway service once a day at 11am, which in theory, should force it to check for updates. 

So one of the problems I ran into with pulseway is, sometimes I would want to restart the service.  Doesn't really matter why, could be to get it to check for new updates to the pulseway agent and get them on the latest version.  The problem was that if I just setup a script to restart the service, say like this ReStart-Service "Pulseway" what would happen is that it would send the command in whatever user environment pulseway runs in, it would execute it, the service would stop, and thennnn.......... nothing! Because we stopped the service, it kills whatever user environment pulseway was using including the script and it never finishes the command.  It's really weird.  So I setup this wonderful little script that creates a scheduled task, that can be run on demand using another script.  It keeps you from running a restart service task on all your end points and suddenly losing connection with them all.... not fun.

So here is the first script you put in to pulseway.  Read the comments and change the working directory, user account and password to match what you use.  It also requires a universal user account on all your workstations that you want to use it on.

# this script will create a scheduled task that runs a powershell script that restarts the pulseway service.

# This line deletes the task if it already exists.  That way if you make changes to the task it will create a fresh copy of it.
schtasks /delete /F /tn "Restart Pulseway"

# working directory path
$workd = "c:\temp"

# Check to see if working directory exists and create if it does not.
If (!(Test-Path -Path $workd -PathType Container))

New-Item -Path $workd  -ItemType directory 
}

# Create a variable with the entire contents of the XML file used to create the scheduled task
$text = '<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-16"?>
<Task version="1.2" xmlns="http://schemas.microsoft.com/windows/2004/02/mit/task">
  <RegistrationInfo>
    <Date>2017-04-24T12:50:26.5825569</Date>
    <Author>ECHO-FAMILYPC\Echo</Author>
    <Description>this will restart the pulseway service, forcing it to check for and implement any updates.</Description>
    <URI>\Restart Pulseway</URI>
  </RegistrationInfo>
  <Triggers>
    <CalendarTrigger>
      <StartBoundary>2017-04-24T11:00:00</StartBoundary>
      <Enabled>true</Enabled>
      <ScheduleByDay>
        <DaysInterval>1</DaysInterval>
      </ScheduleByDay>
    </CalendarTrigger>
  </Triggers>
  <Principals>
    <Principal id="Author">
      <UserId>S-1-5-21-3275926025-1642913270-681481828-1006</UserId>
      <LogonType>Password</LogonType>
      <RunLevel>HighestAvailable</RunLevel>
    </Principal>
  </Principals>
  <Settings>
    <MultipleInstancesPolicy>IgnoreNew</MultipleInstancesPolicy>
    <DisallowStartIfOnBatteries>true</DisallowStartIfOnBatteries>
    <StopIfGoingOnBatteries>true</StopIfGoingOnBatteries>
    <AllowHardTerminate>true</AllowHardTerminate>
    <StartWhenAvailable>true</StartWhenAvailable>
    <RunOnlyIfNetworkAvailable>false</RunOnlyIfNetworkAvailable>
    <IdleSettings>
      <StopOnIdleEnd>true</StopOnIdleEnd>
      <RestartOnIdle>false</RestartOnIdle>
    </IdleSettings>
    <AllowStartOnDemand>true</AllowStartOnDemand>
    <Enabled>true</Enabled>
    <Hidden>false</Hidden>
    <RunOnlyIfIdle>false</RunOnlyIfIdle>
    <WakeToRun>true</WakeToRun>
    <ExecutionTimeLimit>PT72H</ExecutionTimeLimit>
    <Priority>7</Priority>
  </Settings>
  <Actions Context="Author">
    <Exec>
      <Command>Powershell.exe</Command>
      <Arguments>-ExecutionPolicy Bypass '+$workd+'\rstrtPulse.ps1</Arguments>
    </Exec>
  </Actions>
</Task>
'

# Create a variable containing the entire contents of the powershell script that will restart the pulseway service.
$text2 = 'ReStart-Service "Pulseway"'

# Pump the contents of the two variables into the actuall files to be used
$text | Set-Content $workd\rstrtPulse.xml
$text2 | Set-Content $workd\rstrtPulse.ps1

# Command that actually creates the scheduled task.  You will need to change UserName and Password to the universal admin creds that you may use.
schtasks.exe /create /xml "$workd\rstrtPulse.xml" /tn "Restart Pulseway" /ru UserName /rp Password

#Wait a couple seconds
Start-Sleep -s 2

# Delete the files when done.  Dont need anyone knowing my secrets!
del $workd\rstrtPulse.xml
del $workd\rstrtPulse.ps1

 

Here is the second script that you will use to execute the scheduled task

schtasks /run /tn 'Restart Pulseway'

 

Have fun, stay safe, always test your scripts!

Edited by ethorup
minor correction in description
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Thanks, I did use on some machines the following command to restart Pulseway from the mobile app and it did restart the service without any problems:

Restart-Service Pulseway

-Paul

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