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Collect Scheduled Task Info With Python |
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Saturday, 28 March 2009 |
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If you ever needed to see if a Window's scheduled task failed for reporting purposes like I do then read on... I wrote this script because some weekends we get failed tasks, still tracking that down, and I want to see them all quickly and easily when I get into the office. I may actually write a script to rerun the tasks that fail at some point. Currently I simply report these in a web page, but you can just as easily send an e-mail, add it to a log or reporting application. You can also schedule tasks by adding the switches to do so without much work and it will collect this inforamtion off remote servers/workstations. By the time I get this script finished and polished it should prove to be a great resource and I hope someone can make use of this example. Have fun!
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SCHTASKS.EXE /Create [/S system [/U username [/P [password]]]][/RU username [/RP [password]]
/SC schedule [/MO modifier] [/D day] [/M months] [/I idletime] /TN taskname /TR taskrun
[/ST starttime] [/RI interval] [ {/ET endtime | /DU duration} [/K] [/XML xmlfile] [/V1]] [/SD startdate]
[/ED enddate] [/IT] [/Z] [/F]
'''
import os
def get_tasks(server='',usern='',passwd=''):
if server:
cmd = 'SCHTASKS.EXE /s %s /U %s /P %s /Query /v /fo LIST'%(server,usern,passwd)
else:
cmd = 'SCHTASKS.EXE /Query /v /fo LIST'
# Run the command and return results.
err,res = os.popen2(cmd)
tasks = res.readlines()
# Build our dict.
schedule = {}
fields_list = ['scheduled task state','last result','task to run','next run time','comment']
for item in tasks:
item = item.replace('\n','')
if not item:
continue
try:
field,content = item.split(': ')
field = field.strip().lower()
content = content.strip().lower()
if 'taskname' in field:
taskname = content
if content not in schedule:
schedule[content]={}
if field in fields_list:
schedule[taskname]
[field]=content
except:
if field in fields_list:
schedule[taskname][field]=content
return schedule
results = get_tasks()
print(results)
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