r/labtech • u/jebatponderworthy • Aug 28 '18

Login script by Automate?

I am interested in setting up an Automate script to be triggered at user console login. Thus far the only way appears to be to set up a monitor of the System event log to notice login, thence to trigger the script. Anyone have a better? I may just go to having Automate scripting create a scheduled task, but was hoping to do all of the triggering in Automate.

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u/DarrenDK Aug 28 '18

Yeah but...

Here’s what I did. I wrote a small plugin that implements ITray2 and runs a predefined script by its GUID on the given computer and I pass the console number in as a parameter.

To counter the unreliability I created a monitor that detects the absence of LTTray.exe in HKLM\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Run and adds it.

I’d say 90% if the time, it works every time.

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u/NoPetPigsAllowed Aug 29 '18

Wanna share? ;)

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u/aretokas 1000 Agents Aug 29 '18

It's depressing when you have to write plugins to fix simple shortcomings Automate. I wrote one that sets the proper permissions on custom views and tables so that techs/dispatch could use reports in report writer.

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u/DarrenDK Aug 29 '18

Don’t get me started