I'm currently creating a package for SCCM that is wrapped using PowerShell. My package will return 3010 - reboot required when the script is finished. But upon checking the execution history of the machine where I assigned the package, 3010 exit code was recognized as Exit Code Failure. I've been searching many knowledge base site (MSDN, TechNet, etc) but I could not find anything that can enlighten me with this behavior I got for the SCCM package.
So far as I know there is an exit code mapping but from what I saw in SCCM 2012 this feature is only available for applications in SCCM. Is there anyone knows how we will able to make SCCM recognize the exit code of packages in the same way like applications?
Thank you.
No you can not set custom exit code values for Packages. In the properties of the program you can set the 'After running' and have Config Manager control the restart. That should give the user a notification that a restart is required.
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Rundeck 4.8.0 community version on Redhat 9 Linux with Windows node.
My Rundeck jobs call powershell (.ps1) scripts on the windows node.
If there are any errors encountered in the script, the Rundeck job dies.
The rundeck output gives the NonZeroResultCode message
NonZeroResultCode: [WinRMPython] Result code: 1
There's more code that needs to be run after where the error occurred, but Rundeck just dies and doesn't continue the rest of the .ps1.
I previously used Rundeck version 3.something, I thing it was 3.9.
If there was an error in the script, such as a get or a set failed, the Rundeck console would just display the text of the error in red, and continue.
Now I know I can change my code and add try/catch statements, -erroraction SilentlyContinue and so on. However it makes no sense to me that Rundeck takes it upon itself to kill my script because a get or a set failed.
I want to be the one to decide if I want to exit the script or not, I don't want Rundeck to make that decision.
Can this behavior be changed?
thanks in advance.
That's the default Rundeck behavior.
You can "attach" an error handler on that script-step (on any step actually), e.g: the error handler could be the script code when your step fails.
The error handler feature is designed for that kind of scenario, take a look at this.
I have a process in windows which i am running in startup. Now i need to make it if somehow that process get killed or stopped i need to restart it again in Windows 10?
Is there any way. Process is a HTTP server which if somehow stopped in windows i need to restart it. I have tried of writing a power-shell in which I'll check task-list status of process and then if not found I'll restart but that is not a good way. Please suggest some good way to do it.
I have a golang exe; under a particular scenario my process got killed or stopped i need to start it up again automatically. This has to be done imediately after the exe got killed. What is the best way to achieve this?
I will give you a brief rundown. You can enable Audit Process Termination in local group policy of the machine as shown below. In your case, success audits would be enough. Please note that the pic is for Windows 7. It may change with OS.
Now every time a process gets terminated, a success event will be generated and written to the security eventlog.
This will allow you to create a task scheduler that triggers on the generation of this event that calls a script that would run the process again. Simple right?
Well, you might have some trouble setting that task up especially when you want to pass details about the generating event to the script. This should help you get through that.
You can user Task scheduler for this purpose. There is a option of "restart on failure" which can be selected and whenever your process get failed it will restart again.
Reference :- https://social.technet.microsoft.com/Forums/windowsserver/en-US/4545361c-cc1f-4505-a0a1-c2dcc094109a/restarting-scheduled-task-that-has-failed?forum=winserverManagement
I'm looking for the best solution for automating Windows server 2012r2 via Rundeck. I'm extremely familiar with Rundeck but use it for linux vms. I've searched online for this topic but havent found anything that seems reliable. Ideally, I want to start a Runeck Job that can add users in Active Directory but not sure how to approach it. I've tried using winrm but have gotten mixed results. Ironically, it will run basic powershell commands but it errors when trying to do anything with AD. Ive even tried creating a powershell script on the AD server and have Rundeck simply execute the powershell script to no avail. Hopefully someone has had success in controlling windows nodes with Rundeck. Below is the error i receive when trying to run a powershell script.
Execution failed: 27 in project windows: [Workflow result: , step failures: {1=Dispatch failed on 1 nodes: [Windows_AD_Server: NonZeroResultCode: [WinRMPython] Result code: 1 + {dataContext=MultiDataContextImpl(map={ContextView(node:Windows_AD_Server)=BaseDataContext{{exec={exitCode=1}}}, ContextView(step:1, node:Windows_AD_Server)=BaseDataContext{{exec={exitCode=1}}}}, base=null)} ]}, Node failures: {Windows_AD_Server=[NonZeroResultCode: [WinRMPython] Result code: 1 + {dataContext=MultiDataContextImpl(map={ContextView(node:Windows_AD_Server)=BaseDataContext{{exec={exitCode=1}}}, ContextView(step:1, node:Windows_AD_Server)=BaseDataContext{{exec={exitCode=1}}}}, base=null)} ]}, status: failed]
Firstly, PowerShell already offers a built-in way to execute jobs, with no 3rd party addons.
About Jobs
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About Remote Jobs
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I've never heard of / used Rundeck as Paul points out as well, so this just be the Rundeck has particulars that need to be in play first. Yet, looking at the docs, and a quick youtube video on the topic, there are several things that must be in place for what you say here...
I've tried using winrm but have gotten mixed results.
… to work.
Video - Running commands remotely using the console with WinRM/WinRS
If Rundeck is similar to SCCM or Scheduled Task, then the same approach applies.
Write Your PowerShell script. have Rundeck/ScheduedTask call powershell.exe to run the script
How to execute a PowerShell script automatically using Windows task scheduler?
Also, this could very well be seen as a duplicate of this stackoverflow discussion and answer.
rundeck unable to execute powershell script with import-module
I am setting up somethin similar and have the same problem. The AD operation executes successfully, but returns exit code 1 and throw the error you mentioned. I am in the process of debugging the plugin, but it seems there is a bug within response handling.
Please check if the ad operation works although the error is thrown and please post the script block you are using to control the AD.
Edit: in meantime I was able to narrow down the issue and opened an issue with the project: github
I provisionally fixed the issue with adding the following line in winrm-session.py after line 89:
new_msg = msg
The line before is:
" error message: %s" % (e))
The line after is:
else:
If this does not solve your issue, please post your script block.
Best Tobias
In my installer I have a component that installs an NT service. I have a problem that during minor upgrade the service is not stopped. I observed the log generate by installshield during upgrade and it reports it is doing the action StopServices and its return code is 1. I have also started process hacker to log for services start/stop events but the service is never stopped during upgrade. I have also verified that during uninstall the service in stopped and then removed. Any idea why this is happening?
I am using installshield 2008, but any installshield related answer will be really helpful.
Eventually I was not able to overcome this issue. Spent several days trying to figure out what exactly is going on and was not able to figure out why the service is neither stopped nor started during minor upgrade. I was forced to write custom actions that perform this operations and used sc.exe for them. This is not the first unsolvable issue in installshield that I was forced to fix with a custom action. Hope this answer will save several days to someone.
It can be done by install script and a custom action that executes it.
An example for stopping/starting a service (i used it in IS2016):
#include "ifx.h"
//Function to stop the service
export prototype stopService(HWND);
function stopService(hMSI)
begin
ServiceStopService ( "my service name" );
end;
//Function to start the service
export prototype startService(HWND);
function startService(hMSI)
begin
ServiceStartService ( "my service name" ,"");
end;
In order to run the custom action during minor upgrade only, set its condition to:
REINSTALLMODE=vomus
I am trying to install nservice bus on a fresh win server 2012 box and things are not working properly. Any help is appreciated..
I get setup failed prematurely and when I dumped into log file.. this is the error I get..
Calling custom action NServiceBus.Wix.CustomActions!NServiceBus.Wix.CustomActions.CustomActions.InstallMsmq
Installing/Starting MSMQ if necessary.
CustomAction InstallMsmqAction returned actual error code 1603 (note this may not be 100% accurate if translation happened inside sandbox)
Action ended 16:36:36: InstallFinalize. Return value 3.
Action 16:36:36: Rollback. Rolling back action:
Do I have to manually add MSMQ features.?
Yes you need to enable the MSMQ features first.
BTW, the MSI is really only to be installed on developers machines, to prepare a machine in production use the powershell cmdlets, see http://docs.particular.net/nservicebus/managing-nservicebus-using-powershell
Is your dev machine a WinServer 2012?