{"id":116,"date":"2009-02-05T07:40:00","date_gmt":"2009-02-05T14:40:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.jasemccarty.com\/blog\/2009\/02\/citrix-workflow-studio-does-it-add-capabilities-that-we-didnt-have-before.html"},"modified":"2009-02-05T07:40:00","modified_gmt":"2009-02-05T14:40:00","slug":"citrix-workflow-studio-does-it-add-capabilities-that-we-didnt-have-before","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.jasemccarty.com\/blog\/citrix-workflow-studio-does-it-add-capabilities-that-we-didnt-have-before\/","title":{"rendered":"Citrix Workflow Studio – Does it add capabilities that we didn’t have before?"},"content":{"rendered":"

I ran across an article about how to use Citrix Workflow Studio to alert when the print spooler service crashes.<\/p>\n

You can find that article here:
http:\/\/support.citrix.com\/article\/ctx119979<\/p>\n

Kind of interesting… I know that it isn’t a “new” type of process… But do you need the Workflow Studio to do this? Absolutely not.<\/p>\n

I wrote a script about 3 years ago, that let’s me know when print spoolers crash, and then can restart the spooler. Here is a sample (not the code I’m using, but similar)<\/p>\n

'********************************
'* Citrix Printer Warning Script
'* printwarn.vbs
'* 'simple version'
'* 2\/5\/2009
'********************************

'Setup the normal VBS Wscript Stuff
Set WshNetwork = WScript.CreateObject(\"WScript.Network\")
Set WshShell = Wscript.CreateObject(\"Wscript.Shell\")

'Grab the ComputerName
strComputerName = WshNetwork.ComputerName


'Setup the Commands
strStopCmd = \"net stop spooler\"
strStartCmd = \"net start spooler\"

'Stop the Spooler
Set objExec = wshshell.Exec(strStopCmd)

'Start the Spooler
Set objExec = wshshell.Exec(strStartCmd)


'Setup the mail
Set objMessage = CreateObject(\"CDO.Message\")
objMessage.From = \"from@domain.com\"
objMessage.To = \"to@domain.com\"
objMessage.Subject = strComputername _
& \" has a print spooler service issue\"
objMessage.Textbody = strComputername _
& \" has a print spooler service issue\"

'We are talking to a remote SMTP server
objMessage.Configuration.Fields.Item _
(\"http:\/\/schemas.microsoft.com\/cdo\/configuration\/sendusing\") = 2

'Name or IP of Remote SMTP Server
objMessage.Configuration.Fields.Item _
(\"http:\/\/schemas.microsoft.com\/cdo\/configuration\/smtpserver\") = _
& \"mail.domain.com\"

'Server port (typically 25)
objMessage.Configuration.Fields.Item _
(\"http:\/\/schemas.microsoft.com\/cdo\/configuration\/smtpserverport\") = 25

objMessage.Configuration.Fields.Update

'==End remote SMTP server configuration section==

objMessage.Send
<\/pre>\n
Now what do I need to do to have this fire off?<\/p>\n
I made a batch file called “citrixprintwarning.bat”, and put it somewhere on my C: drive.  This is the file that will execute the vbs.<\/p>\n
Here are the simple contents:
c:printerwarn.vbs<\/p>\n
Now I set the Windows Print Spooler Service Recovery options to run the batch file in the event of a failure.<\/p>\n
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When things fail, I get an e-mail, and the service gets restarted.<\/p>\n
I actually got a little fancy with my prod script.  I pull a list of users on the system, so I can try to track down whether I have a user that is constantly causing issues or not.<\/p>\n
And I didn’t have to get the Citrix Workflow Studio to do it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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