Remote control for Administrators

[Laurenz.Lanik]

Since I have to support more than 100 PC's I would really appreciate, if it would be possible to install, start and control MyDefrag from remote, while the user is working on its PC.

At the moment we manually "clean" our PC's, when the users are on vacation or out of office. - We therefore use first CCleaner and then MyDefrag.
It really would be a "nice" feature to be able to start MyDefrag from remote. Maybe as a service or similar.

Unfortunately the "scheduled" run does not work all the time. Sometimes the MyDefrag process gets stuck and then blocks any further scheduled MyDefrag starts.

Do you think this could be implemented easily ?

[Olivarezen]

It's nice idea as I also used to face the same scheduling prob for defrag,,,, but I think it wud hinder the foreground processes and functionalities.... wont u think it will consume more time...

[Laurenz.Lanik]

Of course it will take some processor resp. I/O-time from the users processes. But if you start it e.g. at lunch time when most users are out and just have their screen locked, or you start it remote when you know the user is in a meeting, etc.

[jeroen]

Since I have to support more than 100 PC's I would really appreciate, if it would be possible to install, start and control MyDefrag from remote, while the user is working on its PC.

You can remotely start MyDefrag (and many other programs) with the free PsExec utility from Microsoft. You can also use this to remotely install MyDefrag, see the MyDefrag Installer commandline parameters, but from a management point of view it's perhaps better to place MyDefrag (and it's scripts) on a network share. You can use the MyDefrag no-install version for that, see Is there a no-install version available?

[Olivarezen]

Every industry is in need of automation nowadays. According to the views of the users of remote control for administrators these are the obnoxious tools that can hinder the functionalities and foreground processes to much extent.

[Laurenz.Lanik]

Thanks Jeroen, I just created and tested the no-install version, made a script with very low priority and wrote a batch file to start it with psexec in any PC. - Thats fine for me, thanks.

P.S.: Just one more question: Where can I find the logfile of the remote PC ?

[jeroen]

P.S.: Just one more question: Where can I find the logfile of the remote PC ?

There is no default logfile. You can create a logfile with WriteLogfile and AppendLogfile commands in your script. In other words, you can put the logfile anywhere you want, for example a share. See the Macros and the Variables to form a name for the logfile that contains things like the computer name and date/time.

[Laurenz.Lanik]

Fine. So I added the following lines to the start of "SystemDiskMonthly.MyD"

Code:

/* Make MyDefrag run invisible in the background as slow as possible ... */
WindowSize(invisible)
Slowdown(80)
ProcessPriority(Background)
SetVariable(LogFile, "\\uranos\edv$\Mydefrag\Logs\!COMPUTERNAME!.log")

/* Write the header to the logfile. See the "Settings.MyD" file for the
   definition of the "LogHeader" string. */
WriteLogfile("!LogFile!","LogHeader")

Works perfect

[Laurenz.Lanik]

Unfortunately: Works almost perfect :-(.

The "COMPUTERNAME" Variable is only set correctly for my own PC. For every foreign PC I dont get logfiles .... This might be, because psexec does not handle the environment variables correct ... :-(

[Darlis]

You could pass the name as an argument to MyDefrag and then use it in the scripts. See Macros for further information.