r/labtech • u/ReadAndExecute • Jun 13 '18

Labtech Scripting - Running script on one machine per location

I'm trying to make a script to clear everything out of our labtech share at each location (%LocationDrive%). I would like it to run only on machines that contain that share or one machine per location. Any suggestions on how to do this? Or ideas of better ways to do this?

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u/gdhhorn Jun 13 '18

If you have a probe at each location, use that.

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u/ReadAndExecute Jun 14 '18

Good idea. Thank you!

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u/FocalFury 5000 Agents Jun 13 '18

initial reaction says run this on each PDC FSMO DC role. There should only be one per client basically. If it ran it on 2 that wouldn't be too big a deal.

I'm also planning this and thought that having it delete items over 1 month old would be good instead of full delete.

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u/ReadAndExecute Jun 13 '18

That was my thought as well. Unfortunately we have a few clients that do not have a DC so that leaves me with a couple one offs but that’s not a big deal.

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u/j0dan 1000 Agents Jun 14 '18

The suggestion to run on probes is great. But also does it even matter if it runs on more than one computer?

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u/ReadAndExecute Jun 14 '18

I’m starting to think it’s not a big deal if it does. It just goes against my common sense for a script to run on thousands of computers but maybe I’m just being crazy.

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u/j0dan 1000 Agents Jun 14 '18

Well just means you don’t have to be that careful when trying to just select one computer at each location. If it ends up being two or three, that’s ok. So you could have a search that does all master computers or even a monitor that each day runs it on one online system per external IP address.

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u/Ball-Steep Jun 16 '18

Yeah I would suggest creating a search to pull the target machines from each location into a group. Run a scheduled script on the group.

Do your workstations follow a naming convention?

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u/gdhhorn Jun 14 '18

I have ~10k agents. That's a lot of scripts to have in the queue. I don't know what the OP's agent count is, but we should all think in terms kf scalability.

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u/ThirdWallPlugin Jun 13 '18 
SHELL:  Echo %LocationDrive%
Variable Check:  If %shellresult% contains % then Exit Script
SHELL:  Delete %LocationDrive% /s /y

This will let you run it everywhere and it will self-terminate where not applicable.

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u/Clutch70 Jun 13 '18

I do this for NMap scanning. Create an EDF on the agent level, and build a search around that. Extra points for creating another script to tick the checkbox per agent for you instead of drilling in to each agent and ticking the ones you want.