I've created a vbscript monitor template that executes a sqlplus command on a remote windows server.

Running the vbs script locally, with modifications for local paths, works just fine.

But when executed from the SW poller, it seems as though its not running at all.

Is there something I'm missing with the way SW handles vbscripts? It seems like its executing the script from the poller, instead of pushing to the remote server and executing there.

Does anyone know a way around this?  Or is there an issue with my WshShell.exec command?

I've included the vbs script below

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Summary : Given the server name and oracle instance name.

Determine temp directory, determine server name, create a .sql command file on remote server with spool option. Execute the sqlplus command.

Open spooled file. and this is where it fails. So it creates the .sql file just fine on remote system, but i dont think its executing the sqlplus command.

Troubleshooting

I've tried turning off spool and using redirect to a file option as a part of the sqlcmd variable and the wshshell.exec parameters, neither of which work from SW, but all work locally.

I've also tried setting up an ODBC for Oracle connection without success.

I've tried escaping various characters in the sqlcmd

I've tried changing around sqlplus command

I've tried using the pipe symbol in the command

I've tried utilizing wshremote functions of vbscript without success. (creating script on poller and using wshremote to push to remote server and executing there)

I've tried capturing stderr and stdout from the vbscript, but they are always null.

I've opened a ticket with SW, but they referred me to the powershell doco and said they cant help with scripts, but I was really just asking how SW handles vbscript.

Permissions for the template credentials are domain and have access to the servers.

When I manually create the output file, the script executes as expected calculating free space and etc.

Hoping someone can help..

Thanks in advance.

Parameters : \\${IP}\C$\Temp {Instance Name}

Option Explicit

Dim LOGIN, DBName, SQLSelect, TmpDir, TmpDirSet, ArchiveDrive, EndofServer, ServerName, SQLDir

Dim WshShell, oExec, SQLOutput, fso, objfile, Disk, DiskFree, DiskTotal, DiskPercent

Set fso = CreateObject("Scripting.FileSystemObject")

Set WshShell = Wscript.CreateObject("WScript.Shell")

TmpDirSet = False

EndofServer = instr(3,Wscript.Arguments(0),"\",0)

ServerName = mid(Wscript.Arguments(0),1,EndofServer)

'---------------------------

'-- Determine Temp directory

'---------------------------

if fso.folderexists(ServerName & "C$\Temp") then

        SQLDir = "C:\Temp"

  TmpDir = ServerName & "C$\Temp"

  TmpDirSet = True

end if

if fso.folderexists(ServerName & "C$\Windows\Temp") and TmpDirSet = False then

        SQLDir = "C:\Windows\Temp"

  TmpDir = ServerName & "C$\windows\Temp"

  TmpDirSet = True

end if

if fso.folderexists(ServerName & "C$\WinNT\Temp") and TmpDirSet = False then

        SQLDir = "C:\WinNT\Temp"

  TmpDir = ServerName & "C$\WinNT\Temp"

  TmpDirSet = True

end if

If TmpDirSet = False then

  WScript.Echo "Message: Unable to determine temp directory"

        WScript.Echo "Statistic: 0"

        Wscript.Quit(0)

end if

'-----------------------------------

'-- Setup Connection Info for Oracle

'-----------------------------------

LOGIN="userid/password"

DBName=Wscript.Arguments(1)

'----------------------------------

'-- Create Tempory SQL command file

'----------------------------------

Set objFile = fso.CreateTextFile(TmpDir & "\s_" & DBNAME & ".sql", true)

objFile.writeline("SPOOL " & SQLDir & "\sqloutput.log;")

objFile.writeline("select value from v$parameter where name = 'log_archive_dest' and value is not null")

objFile.writeline("union all")

objFile.writeline("select value from v$parameter where name = 'log_archive_dest_1' and value is not null")

objFile.writeline("union all")

objFile.writeline("select value from v$parameter where name = 'log_archive_dest_2' and value is not null;")

objFile.writeline("SPOOL OFF;")

objFile.writeline("quit;")

objFile.Close

'----------------------------

'-- Execute SQLPlus Statement

'---------------------------- 

dim sqlcmd

wscript.sleep(10000)

sqlcmd = ServerName & "C$\oracle\ora81\bin\sqlplus -s " & LOGIN & "@" & DBName & " < " & "C:\Temp\s_" & DBName & ".sql"

Set oExec = WshShell.Exec(sqlcmd)

'-------------------

'--Retrieve location

'-------------------

Set objFile = fso.OpenTextFile(TmpDir & "\sqloutput.log", 1)

Do While objFile.AtEndOfStream = False

    SQLOutput = objfile.readline()

  if Instr(SQLOutput,":\") > 0 then

  ArchiveDrive = mid(SQLOutPut,1,1)

  Exit Do

  end if

Loop

objFile.Close

set Disk = fso.GetDrive(ServerName & ArchiveDrive & "$")

DiskTotal = Disk.TotalSize

DiskFree = Disk.FreeSpace

DiskPercent = (100 - ((DiskFree/DiskTotal)*100))

Wscript.echo "Statistic : " & FormatNumber(DiskPercent,2)

Wscript.echo "Message : " & SQLOutput

'----------------------------------

'-- Delete Tempory SQl command file

'----------------------------------

'fso.DeleteFile(TmpDir & "\solarwinds_" & DBNAME & ".sql")

'fso.deleteFile(TmpDir & "sqloutput.log")

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Hi,

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The remote server returned an error: (415) Unsupported Media Type.

Headers:

Connection: close

Date: Thu, 12 Mar 2015 12:53:54 GMT

Content-Length: 0

X-OPNET-Transaction-Trace: a2_7fa6a299-b967-4462-8627-f9a9de25b4e1

X-Powered-By: Servlet/2.5 JSP/2.1

ResponseUri: http://abc-chsa-p01:8890/cs/ABCAuthSoap12HttpPort

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UCD-DISKIO-MIB::diskIOIndex.2 = INTEGER: 2

UCD-DISKIO-MIB::diskIOIndex.3 = INTEGER: 3

UCD-DISKIO-MIB::diskIOIndex.4 = INTEGER: 4

UCD-DISKIO-MIB::diskIOIndex.5 = INTEGER: 5

UCD-DISKIO-MIB::diskIOIndex.6 = INTEGER: 6

UCD-DISKIO-MIB::diskIOIndex.7 = INTEGER: 7

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(lots of additional omitted output) ...

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Description              size (kB)            Used       Available Used%

/                          9296968         2578672         6718296   27%

/home                      4128448          139364         3989084    3%

/var                       4128448          274556         3853892    6%

/tmp                        516040           16820          499220    3%

[yaddayadda@hostname-01 ~]$

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