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[Kaseya Agent Procedure] VMWare ESXi Hardware Health Monitor

VMWare ESXi Hardware Health Monitor Script

From the skunk works here at Squidworks comes another great monitoring script for Kaseya.

This script uses the SDK provided by VMWare to query the ESX host and return a good or bad variable. If the hardware test fails then the script grabs the log of the test and uploads it to Kaseya Server then places it under the “Get File” area for the host that ran the test. You can run this script on any windows box, I have also included the current vSphere SDK installer and a Kaseya script to install it if it is not found on the Windows Host.

Upload the SDK installer and Import the scripts to your public files area in Kaseya under the directory “VMWare”. If you place files anywhere else you will need to edit script for the new location of files.

The script then makes a unique event log entry into the Windows Application Event Log under the Application Events that can then be picked up by Kaseya’s Event Log Monitor. When Kaseya picks up this event you can instruct the monitor to create an alarm, create a ticket, run another agent procedure or email the alarm to an address(s). Just schedule the agent procedure to run a couple of times a day to keep an eye on your customers VMware vSphere ESXi Hardware health.

This script links to the CIM information provided by the hardware to the ESX host. You will see CPU, Memory, Fans, RAID and Controller Health. The log file that is uploaded will only show failures and will tell you what failed and on what ESX host.

Download -> Kaseya VMWare ESXi Hardware Monitor

Enjoy

Cubert 😎

[Kaseya Agent Procedure] Free Active Directory Health Monitor Script

Active Directory Health Monitor Script

From the skunk works here at Squidworks comes another great monitoring script for Kaseya.

The Active Directory Health Monitor Agent Procedure executes DCDiag on your Windows Active Directory server and captures any failures reported. The script then makes a unique event log entry into the Windows Application Event Log under the Application Events that can then be picked up by Kaseya’s Event Log Monitor. When Kaseya picks up this event you can instruct the monitor to create an alarm, create a ticket, run another agent procedure or email the alarm to an address(s). Just schedule the agent procedure to run a couple of times a day to keep an eye on your customers Active Directory health.

The script also provides a complete report of the DCDiag results in the event of a failure that you can view by going to the “Get Files” area of your host in Kaseya and under this folder will be an Active Directory folder where the DCDiag.txt file results are stored.

All files and a README are included in the ZIP. Feel free to POST here any issues or comments you may have.

Download -> Kaseya-ActiveDirectoryHealth

Enjoy

Cubert 😎

Kaseya Agent Procedure – Local Admin Audit

Cubert has created another simple auditing script for Kaseya Agent procedures. This script grabs all the users and groups in the Local Administrators Group of any Windows system and saves then to a file on the Kserver. Every time the script runs it will upload and compare the files for differences. If it finds that a user or group was added or removed it will alert the Kserver. If you have a GetFile Alarm rule setup in the Monitor Menu -> Alerts -> GetFile to create a ticket or email you then you will receive an alert anytime the script is run and changes are seen.

Download and unzip the XML file and import it in to Kaseya Agent Procedures. There is no scripts or extra files needed with this guy so you only need the XML file inside the zip.

Download here -> Procedure-LocalAdminAudit

Enjoy

Cubert 😎

[Kaseya Agent Procedure] Mac OSX and Windows – Send A Friend a YouTube Video Surprise!

Kaseya YouTube Me Script Plays Youtube videos on desktop inside a player.

Here is a script that carries a warning, Use Wisely… I am not responsible for misuse! If you play porn on the bosses PC why he is in a meeting with the board of directors I am not liable for your termination and or execution depending on the boss…

Now with that disclaimer said here is what I made for you. This script will “based on the OS installed” (Windows) copies a portable version of VLC to c:\temp and runs it with a URL as a option or (Mac OSX) Downloads a DMG of VLC and installes it if not found already on system and then runs the same URL.

The URL is a cartoon of a stick guy beating himself to death while a stupid song plays in the backgrond. It will pop up on the desktop of the user logged in and if the speakers are up it may be a jolt!

Here are the files you will need

The script -> Procedure YouTube Me

WIndow Portable VLC -> Windows VLC

Mac OSX VLC (dmg) vlc.2.0.1

Download all 3 files and upload the VLC files to your VSA SharedFiles Folder. Edit script after importing it into Kaseya and make sure you do not have any red lines in code. If so you may have file location issues, check where you uploaded VLC files. Post here any good YouTube URL to use for script.

Have fun

Cubert 😎

[Kaseya Agent Procedure] Mac OSX Diagnostic data collection scripts

Collect Application, Network, Firewall, Ethernet and Diagnostic information from Mac OSX

Download Here -> MacOSX Diagnostics

Cubert (Me) has been tasked with learning and creating useful scripts for Mac OSX systems. Here are some of the first scripts to come out. Our techs requested after the first week using the tools in Kaseya what would help make job just a bit easier and they reported back wanting some basic information stored in Kaseya that keeps them from having to access system to confirm settings.

That spawned on a quick set of scripts that go out and collect the following information and stores it in a text file inside Kaseya available in the “Get File” area inside LiveConnect -> Agent Data Select Get File tab or during a hover over a orb when pop out information window shows up you can click “Get File”. Each file is named based on test run and makes for quick access to Applications and firewall settings.

Enjoy

Cubert 😎

Kaseya Agent Procedure -> Check Active Directory for Active User Changes

Agent Procedure “GetActiveADUsers” is a small script I created that grabs the list of all “active” users in all OU’s and pipes that information along with their email addresses to a file. The script then grabs file and stores that file in the GetFile Area inside Kaseya. The script is also setup to alarm on change which will allow you to add a monitor for “getfile” that will email you or do something when the list of users changes.

Makes a great tool when you have large AD environments where there are a lot of OU’s and/or users are scattered all over the AD infrastructure. The text file created provides the users full name, email address and dept name if filled out.

Get script here -> Procedure GetActiveADUsers

This is a zip file with the procedure XML file inside. You will need to assign this script to only Active Directory Servers and schedule it for once a day. Then select the Monitor Tab and then Alerts and create a Alarm using the “Get Files” option in the “Select Alert Function ” drop down list. Have it email you if the alarm is struck.

That’s all there is to it!

Enjoy Cubert 😎

[Kaseya Script] Modify/Disable TCP Global Parameters on Windows systems

Need another Kaseya agent procedure? Here is one I use alot.

This article describes the TCP Chimney Offload, Receive Side Scaling (RSS), and Network Direct Memory Access (NetDMA) and other features that are available for the TCP/IP protocol inside of Windows. I have spent probably hundreds of hours on cases involving TCP Offloading and I know most of the signs (intermittent dropped connections, missing traffic in network traces, RDP blank windows, etc…).

I created a Kaseya script that goes and disables many of these NIC features Windows puts in their OS that causes so much havoc at times.

Download Script here -> Procedure_Network_feature_shutdown

It is pretty basic, it sets several registery values and runs several shell CMDs using netsh to disable these protocols.

I hope this helps some of you out there.

Cubert.

[Kaseya Scripts] Repair VSS Writers on Windows Servers Agent Procedure

Are you having VSS issues? Need a script to launch when either errors are reported or as a point and shoot script to repair VSS writer issues? Well Cubert has created a new VSS script that is fairly simple in nature but gets the job done nicely. This Kasey Agent Procedure was written for Kaseya 6+ RMM and has 2 parts.

Part 1: Is the VSS-RESET.bat batch file that does the actual work by shutting down the services and re-registering the dlls used by the different VSS Writers. Afterwards it outputs a file to the temp directory with a printout of the VSS writer list cmd.

Part 2: Is the Kaseya Agent procedure that copies the batch file to the system and executes it. It then waits a few minutes for everything to complete and then grabs the report file generated by the batch file and places it on the “GetFile” tab under your [Agent data] menu item inside of LiveConnect.

You can review the report file to see if you are still generating errors after the repairs are preformed.

Download Agent Procedure here -> VSS-RESET

I hope this helps someone out there is Kaseya land!

Cubert.

[Kaseya Agent Procedure] – Run CHKDSK And Repair If Needed.

Free Kaseya Script – Run CHKDSK And Repair

Here is another free script from Cubert’s Dwelling, An Agent procedure that will run a CHKDSK in read only mode. Parse the output and run a chkdsk /F if it meets the criteria set forth in the script. It then emails an alert with the scan results to a email address provided before it uploads a copy of the scan to the get file for storage and review. Finally it updates 2 custom fields in the system info table with a brief result and the last run time. If it finds the disk healthy it will report as such if not it will report one of several error types.

Download Script Here

You will need to unzip the script and import it into Kaseya. Once imported edit the script and find the 2 places it email out and update the email address(es), Then you will need to add the 2 custom fields into your System-info table.

To add the custom fields:
1# Open Kaseya and go to [Audit] – [View Individual Data] – [System Information] and select the button marked [New Custom Field]

2# The next box that pops up will create a new field, We will need to add 2 fields the first is CheckDisk Status and it will be a type String and Check Disk Updated with a type String.

Now run your disk check and see what it shows. If it meets with the right disk errors, a repair is sent to the system and a email to you to reboot system when you can so the repair can complete. You can add another execute command under where we call the chkdsk /F with a shutdown -r -t 3 and that will cause the system to reboot its self after issuing the fix cmd. This is great for servers where your scheduling the disk scans during maintenance cycles but not so good with workstations where user gets booted up then a scan runs that then reboots the system will only inflame your users. So be mindful of how you use a shutdown cmd.

Enjoy

Cubert 🙂

Kaseya Agent Procedure -> Alert if Privileged Account are changed in Active Directory

Out of the skunkworks here at Squidworks comes a new Kaseya Agent Procedure. This procedure (Script) pulls all members of privileged accounts groups like Domain Admins, Enterprise Admins and Schema Admins and stores it to the GETFILE location on your K-Server. Also viewable using LiveConnect -> Agent Data -> GetFile Tab. You can add and remove groups from the VBScript to match your needs. The nice thing about this script is it finds out what your Forest is and queries the domains inside. You do not need to edit script for every domain in your customer base. This 1 script will query any domain it is pointed at, with out knowing what the domain name is! (Sweet) This makes it a great tool to deploy across all customers as it requires no edits to run on any domain.

The script should be scheduled to run every day, each time it is run it copies a new file up to the GETFILE area and does a compare of the 2 files. If they are not exactly the same it will send an alert that a change has happened.

You then need to watch for this alert to happen and alarm on it. To do this you will goto your Monitor tab in Kaseya. In the main menu under Agent Monitoring select Alerts. In the main window under alerts you will find a drop down selection box called “Select Alert Function“. In this drop down list locate and select “Get Files” then select the AD server you are running the script on and set it to Alarm and email you upon change.

That’s It. It will check your accounts and if a change takes place it then alerts you that a change has happened to which you can investigate. This works great if you need to keep people out of these privileged accounts groups.

AD Admin Audit Kaseya Script Zip

Enjoy

Cubert