I am updating an existing HTA application. The page displays records of each machine in the company that hasn't performed a backup (Via ibm tsm) within the last 3 days. I have made a button for each record that when pressed, should execute a cscript process using PSEXEC that run an exe on the target machine and passes an argument. (dsmc.exe INCREMENTAL) Now i can manually open a cmd prompt, use the \Remote cmd command to create a remote cmd, and run the application just fine. But without the extra step of creating a remote cmd prompt, and trying to
PSEXEC \\RemoteMachine cscript.exe "C:\Program Files\tivoli\tsm\baclient\dsmc.exe" INCREMENTAL
Only results in an error. I know that it should be possible to remotely execute this program and still pass in an argument but it just doesn't run. And when i create the remote cmd prompt using
PSEXEC \\RemoteMachine cmd
Any other lines in the execution script do not execute until i exit the remote cmd prompt.
Is there a secret to PSEXEC i don't understand or a way to grab an existing cmd prompt (The remote one i just created) and pass it the command to execute? Please Help
*Note, this is not my first script using PSEXEC. I typically use my VBScript to create a batch file locally with the PSEXEC Script contained, and then execute it. Never have been able to get wsshell.run to work with PSEXEC.
Here is (more or less) my syntax for using objShell.Run to work with psexec:
Set objShell = CreateObject("Wscript.Shell")
objShell.Run "cmd.exe /c ""%pathToPsexec%\psexec.exe"" -accepteula -s -i -d \\RemoteMachine cmd.exe /k ipconfig",0,True
This is just an example, but shows that you can send nested switches, etc. It's also important to understand the switches of psexec.
-accepteula - this accepts the license agreement on psexec. this isn't necessary unless you're running it for the first time and you want it to be quiet.
-s - runs as the System account of the remote computer. If you don't use this, you need to specify -u and -p if you want to run interactively. Otherwise your credentials perform a network logon
-i - specifies to run interactively. This can be omitted or a session can be specified.
-d - don't wait for the remote command to finish before moving on