Vbscript - Get info about running jobs / tasks

[Stefan S]

Hi, I have found the following extra which makes the agent checking for new tasks: set agent = CreateObject("Altiris.AeXNSClient") set clientTaskAgent = agent.Agent("Altiris.ClientTaskAgent") clientTaskAgent.CheckForTasks() I was wondering what other methods and properties are available for this object. Especially I would like to know if the current running jobs and tasks can be collected. Thanks Stefan

[Sam Pace]

Hi Stefan,

There is a CHM file that can be found in Program Files > Altiris > Altiris ASDK > Help > ASDK8.1.chm

There are a few more examples under Programming Guides > COM Programming Guide.

Let us know if you need anything else.

Thanks

 

[Stefan S]

I have not found anything there related to the Task Agent part.

[Sam Pace]

Could you use the TaskStatusDetails Members? 

There are fields for Status and Type. 

Status

Status of the task.

Type	Indicates if this task is a "Server Job", "Server Task", "Client Job" or "Client Task".

[Stefan S]

Hi Sam,

Thanks for your help, however this functions I cannot use for this purpose. I want to get the information on the client side. I probably have found what I need. Some information can be queried using WMI:

strComputer = "." 
Set objWMIService = GetObject("winmgmts:\\" & strComputer & "\root\CIMV2") 
Set colItems = objWMIService.ExecQuery( _
    "SELECT * FROM AltirisAgent_ClientTaskStatus",,48) 
For Each objItem in colItems 
    Wscript.Echo "-----------------------------------"
    Wscript.Echo "AltirisAgent_ClientTaskStatus instance"
    Wscript.Echo "-----------------------------------"
    Wscript.Echo "Description: " & objItem.Description
    Wscript.Echo "EndTime: " & objItem.EndTime
    Wscript.Echo "Guid: " & objItem.Guid
    Wscript.Echo "Name: " & objItem.Name
    Wscript.Echo "ReturnCode: " & objItem.ReturnCode
    Wscript.Echo "StartTime: " & objItem.StartTime
    Wscript.Echo "Status: " & objItem.Status
Next

and

strComputer = "." 
Set objWMIService = GetObject("winmgmts:\\" & strComputer & "\root\CIMV2") 
Set colItems = objWMIService.ExecQuery( _
    "SELECT * FROM AltirisAgent_ClientTaskAgentStatus",,48) 
For Each objItem in colItems 
    Wscript.Echo "-----------------------------------"
    Wscript.Echo "AltirisAgent_ClientTaskAgentStatus instance"
    Wscript.Echo "-----------------------------------"
    Wscript.Echo "CurrStatusCode: " & objItem.CurrStatusCode
    Wscript.Echo "LastCheckedForTasks: " & objItem.LastCheckedForTasks
    Wscript.Echo "LastRegistered: " & objItem.LastRegistered
    Wscript.Echo "MachineGUID: " & objItem.MachineGUID
    Wscript.Echo "TaskName: " & objItem.TaskName
    Wscript.Echo "TaskReturnCode: " & objItem.TaskReturnCode
    Wscript.Echo "TaskServer: " & objItem.TaskServer
    Wscript.Echo "TaskStatusCode: " & objItem.TaskStatusCode
Next

Stefan

[Sam Pace]

Hi Stefan,

Yeah, I would agree that WMI is the easier option. 

There is another class called "AltirisAgent_Task" that may help.

The Properties for that class include things like:

IsActive
IsScheduled
Status

If you've found what you need from "AltirisAgent_ClientTaskAgentStatus" then feel free to mark yourself as the solution!

Thanks

[alcer123]

Can you use the tasks reports to accomplish that? Reports-->Task Server-->Status-->Job/Task Status Detail

[Stefan S]

The WMI seems to be the best way to achieve what I wanted to do. I am going to use the following command in powerwhell to get the tasks which are currently running on the client machine. The script is running locally on the client.

$list = Get-WmiObject AltirisAgent_ClientTaskStatus -Filter "Status = '0' "

foreach ( $item in $list ) { 

"Name = " + $item.Name


}

Stefan