I have written many scripts, including Windows and Netware login scripts, Windows shell scripts, PERL scripts, and very concise programs written in C, C++ and VB that would better be classified as scripts. Nowadays I use VBScript, Windows Scripting Host, and WMI for almost everything. Here are several little hacks that I have done. I hope to have time to include some useful subroutines and functions in the future.
| TestDomainControllers.vbs | Wouldn't it be nice to have the time once
a week to run the diagnostic and review the results? (yeah, right)
Well, I wrote a script to automate that process. It works like this:
First there is a subroutine that enumerates the DCs and puts the result into
an array of strings. Next there is a function that runs DCDiag against the
list of DCs looking for the string "failure". If that string is found it
cocatenates the server name and failure string to a global string variable.
At the end of this function, if a failure was found, the function returns
"True". If the function returns true, the script e-mails an alert with the
necessary information. |
| ProcessWatchdog.vbs | This script is used to terminate a hung or long-running process. You can configure the process name, the maximum run time, notification options, and' logging options. 'Note: This script is designed to loop continuously. I was careful to ensure that destructors were included in all the correct places to eliminate memory leaks. Normally I trigger this via a Task Scheduler job that runs at startup. |
| BulkCreateUsers | Quick & dirty user creation script. Parses tab separated text file containing user IDs & Full Names |
| CleanFiles | I like to use this in conjunction with the Windows Task Scheduler to automatically delete old log files, temp riles, etc. |
| CheckSQLStorage | This is used to check the amount of storage available within a MSSQL database file. It logs the statistics to a file. If the amount of available storage drops below a specified threshold, an e-mail alert is sent. This script uses the SQL-DMO API. |
Note: These scripts come with no warranty whatsoever. Always try them in a test environment prior to putting to work in production. Use them at your own risk.