Starting Scripts and Applications in Response to an Event

We now want to start an application or a script when certain events occur. Typically, this is done to start administrative scripts or corrective action. For example, if a disk runs low on space, you could start a script that deletes temporary files, or if a service fails, a script could restart it.

Our sample, on the other hand, is kept quite simple again. We just show how to generically start an exe file. To do so, we define a new rule named “Application starts”. Again, we use the imaginary event 592 as a filter condition. Therefore, the application starts whenever event 592 comes in.

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The start program action is just a “normal” action:

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In the “Start Program” action’s parameters select the file to run. Also all parameters need to be supplied to it (if any):

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Once this configuration is done, the program is executed as soon as an event matching the filter condition comes in.