Test result of Windows Scheduled Tasks

Stoltze · Post by **Stoltze** » Thu Jun 08, 2006 2:10 pm

Hi,

Is it possible to test the last result of Windows Scheduled Tasks?

Eg "Run at xxxxx", "unable to start" etc...

AHM version 5.92

Yoorix · Post by **Yoorix** » Thu Jun 08, 2006 2:47 pm

You may use WMI query. Following article might be helpful:
http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/defau ... _tasks.asp

Regards,
Yoorix

Stoltze · Post by **Stoltze** » Thu Jun 08, 2006 11:55 pm

Yoorix wrote:You may use WMI query.

Hmm.. Scripting...

Oki, thats one way to do it...

Are there any other ways? Perhaps anyone knows, if it's possible to get it to write the result in the Event Viewer?

Yoorix · Post by **Yoorix** » Fri Jun 09, 2006 2:10 am

Stoltze wrote:Hmm.. Scripting... Oki, thats one way to do it...

No scripting

You should use WMI test method and query like Select * from Win32_ScheduledJob or Select JobStatus from Win32_ScheduledJob as described in foregoing article.

Regards,
Yoorix

Stoltze · Post by **Stoltze** » Fri Jun 09, 2006 8:22 am

Yoorix wrote:You should use WMI test method and query like Select * from Win32_ScheduledJob or Select JobStatus from Win32_ScheduledJob as described in foregoing article.

Oki.. Looked at bit more at it now..

Looks like what I need.. Just need to get hold of manual creation of scheduled task now...

Thnx...

KS-Soft Europe · Post by **KS-Soft Europe** » Fri Jun 09, 2006 9:21 am

Stoltze wrote:Just need to get hold of manual creation of scheduled task now...

You may try schtasks command line utility to create scheduled task.

Regards,
Max

Stoltze · Post by **Stoltze** » Fri Jun 09, 2006 2:24 pm

KS-Soft Europe wrote:
Stoltze wrote:Just need to get hold of manual creation of scheduled task now...
You may try schtasks command line utility to create scheduled task.

Great! That was just what I needed!! Thnx..

fishvict · Post by **fishvict** » Thu Jun 29, 2006 7:41 am

There is a catch to using WMI that I found... WMI only works with tasks that were created using the "AT" command. It does not work with tasks scheduled with the "Scheduled Task Wizard". So, the next question is, how do I monitor tasks created with the wizard?

So far, I have an idea, but haven't gotten too far with it.

You can get the status by running schtasks and outputting to a file. The fun part is parsing the file, because you can't output the results of just a single task, its the whole list.

If anyone has any ideas, I'd appreciate it.

Thanks.