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Andy_C · 2025-10-22T22:11:16.533000Z

Basically as per, I have about 40 windows boxes I need to get some log file monitoring on. None have internet access , and I don't really want to install 40 odd collectors or OTEL agents, and they are all in different domains so UNC copying isn't really an answer eitherThe path is C:\ProgramData\Microsoft System Center 2012\Orchestrator\RunbookServerMonitorService.exe\Logs , just to make it a bit more awkward, which stays the same . All my attempts at a groovy script to get the files just crash and burn even throwing all the AI engines at it ! This is as far as I can get. It reads the newest 20 lines of code whilst running in a !groovy debug window. That's before we get to converting it to JSON or parsing for specific event text. I gave up when we got to tripple escaping and ##WMI.USER## can't be escaped.Anybody got a LS they can share or point me to ?def remoteComputer = "machinename"def username = 'domain\user'def password = 'password'// Folder to checkdef folderPath = 'C:\\ProgramData\\Microsoft System Center 2012\\Orchestrator\\RunbookServerMonitorService.exe\\Logs'// PowerShell command (escaped for Groovy)def psCommand = """\$securePass = ConvertTo-SecureString '${password}' -AsPlainText -Force\$cred = New-Object System.Management.Automation.PSCredential('${username}', \$securePass)Invoke-Command -ComputerName ${remoteComputer} -Credential \$cred -ScriptBlock { param(\$folder) if (Test-Path \$folder) { \$newest = Get-ChildItem -Path \$folder -File -ErrorAction SilentlyContinue | Sort-Object LastWriteTime -Descending | Select-Object -First 1 if (\$newest) { \$lines = Get-Content \$newest.FullName -Tail 20 Write-Output "Last 20 lines of: \$newest.Name" Write-Output \$lines } else { Write-Output "No files found in: \$folder" } } else { Write-Output "Folder does not exist: \$folder" }} -ArgumentList '${folderPath}' | Out-String"""// Run PowerShell from Groovydef command = ["powershell.exe", "-NoProfile", "-Command", psCommand]def process = command.execute()def output = new StringBuffer()def error = new StringBuffer()process.consumeProcessOutput(output, error)process.waitFor()println "Output:"println output.toString().trim()if (error) { println "Errors:" println error.toString()}

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