Need a way to run an application monitor that DOES NOT use windows scripting or powershell. Both powershell and windows scripting have major drawbacks.
Powershell drawbacks:
1. Running 100s or 1000's of instances of powershell is a major resource hogg and extra servers/license must be purchased to support many custom application monitors
Windows Scrpting drawbacks:
1. Cscript has bugs where, when many instances run at a time, they fail with exit code "0xC0000142" (also known as "-1073741502")
See References:
- Solar Winds Case #666090 - "Application Monitors"
- http://www.vistax64.com/vb-script/178805-maximum-number-concurrent-cscript-exe-any-one-time.html [Unresolved issue with cscript]
- http://www.ks-soft.net/phpBB/viewtopic.php?t=4512&sid=f0fe56d880d9635523da65dc8a830fc5 [Unresolved issue with cscript]
- More examples are available with a google search
Because of these issues with windows scripting and powershell application monitors, accurate reports on uptime are very difficult to generate and many false positive tickets are created (for Solarwinds users who heavily rely on application monitors)
Potential alternatives to these two are
1. Allow direct execution of exe files from application monitor (Solarwinds users would have to supply custom software required but this is likely the best performing solution)
2. Allow direct execution of batch file scripts from application monitor