Specify Script - Virtual Server Added

Use this dialog box to specify a script to run when an alert is triggered by a virtual server being added to a monitored cluster.

Note: You can associate a virtual server alert with a non-clustered resource, but the alert will not do anything. To use a Virtual Server Added alert, you must associate it with a cluster.

Note: The Datae Manager agent checks to find out whether it is running in a cluster at the following times:

• when it is started
• when a probe is run

If the Microsoft Cluster service is started after the Data Manager agent, the agent will not be aware of the cluster, and any virtual server alerts you have defined cannot be triggered. This will occur until a manual or scheduled probe is run on one of the cluster nodes.

Running Scripts in response to an alert

When you define an alert, you can define a script to be run when the triggered condition is met.

1. Check Run Script on the Alert page.
2. Press Define. The Specify Script dialog box displays.
3. Enter the name of the script in the Script Name field

Note: This script name is used to tell the server what script to send to the agent. If the script sent by the aerver is run by the agent, the name of the script will not be the name you specify in the Script Name field. Instead, the agent names the script as temporary file, runs it, then deletes it after the script has run. Because of this, you should not have code in your script that depends on this script name.

4. Specify where you want the script to run in the Where to Run field. You can select a specific agent or the triggering computer. For example, if an alert is violated on a specific machine, you would typically want the script to run the machine that triggered the alert. (For some types of alerts such as Job Failed, you will not have the option to run the script on the triggering computer.)

   The Script Parameters section displays what parameters will be passed to the script when it is run. Each triggering condition passes different parameters. The parameters will be passed in the order specified on the dialog box.

5. Click OK. The script will run when the alert is triggered.