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Thursday, April 06, 2006

Can I Launch a Interactive Remote Command Prompt from MOM Operator Console?

This question came from someone in the MS newsgroups.

You can (and I have) a custom task to open an interactive command prompt focused on a remote machine using PSEXEC from sysinternals.com, which I am sure most everyone is familiar with. There are two keys spots in the task wizard to focus on to make this work:

Task command line: psexec \\$Computer Name$ cmd (this focuses on the machine you've highlighted in alert view)
Task output behavior: Do not display output (this prevents your cmd window from being trapped in the MOM read-only window)

Anyway, such a good idea I put together a quick walkthrough on how to setup.
http://www.it-jedi.net/HOW-TO/HOW-TO-Remote_Interactive_CmdPrompt.doc

FYI - this is my first go at publishing a HOW-TO with MSWord, so let me know if you have trouble accessing!

Cheers!

Comments on "Can I Launch a Interactive Remote Command Prompt from MOM Operator Console?"

 

Pete Zerger said ... (2:42 PM) : 

Be aware that this cmd prompt provides localysystem access to the remote system!

-Pete

 

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