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Tim_King's avatar
Tim_King
5 years ago

Run an Ad Hoc PowerShell Command?

Is it possible to run a PowerShell command as needed without having to script out a datasource? We have a 3rd party program running on the collector that periodically needs the Windows servic...
mnagel's avatar
mnagel
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5 years ago

Check Mike Suding's blog page -- lots of cool stuff, including this. A bit old, but probably still works :).

http://blog.mikesuding.com/2016/09/20/restart-a-service-alert-if-restart-fails/

As far as the debugger, yeah -- that stuff freaks me out a lot given that LM more or less requires Domain Admins on collectors (really should be Performance Monitoring Users, especially after the recent SolarWinds incident).  You can run those debugger commands from the API as well, even more scary.