A custom process Optional script or executable that is desired to run pre or post GOexchange maintenance actions. is any script that you want to run prior to or following a GOexchange® maintenance job An object that represent the actions to take on an Exchange Server. Operators can select from a series of scripts to run against one or all databases, as well as custom processes, notifications backup actions and more..
NOTE: Custom Start and Finish processes are strictly optional.
NOTE: Supported Start and Finish process extensions are *.exe, *.com, and *.bat.
For example, you may want to create a custom process that starts a backup job using a backup solution that is not yet integrated with the GOexchange® backup integration agent.
From the Assign
Maintenance Action window, click on either of the ellipse
"..." buttons and
the Custom Command dialog will appear.
From within the Custom Command dialog browse for
the application or batch file you want to run.
Select the desired application or batch file and click OK.
By default GOexchange® will wait for the process to complete and or until the timeout limit is reached and then the custom command will be failed.
By default the timeout limit is set to 10 minutes however this can be adjusted to wait for up to 99 hours, 99 minutes and 99 seconds.
Select "Ignore Completion and use timeout" if you want to have GOexchange® wait the specific timeout period even if the Custom Process has completed.
NOTE: Use this option if an executable or batch file is being used only to launch a process and does not stay active during the entire process. If this is the case then the operating system will return that the process is complete, when in reality the process actually takes more time to complete.
Select "Treat failure as error" if the script is critical to the maintenance process.
NOTE: If the process cannot start or times out, GOexchange® will stop all remaining steps of the maintenance job and the Custom Process action will be reported as a failure.
NOTE: If the "Treat failure as error" IS NOT SELECTED and the Custom Command has not completed within the timeout period, then GOexchange® will fail the Custom Process action, report Documents that provides summary and detailed information regarding a planned specification that has completed. the failure as a warning and continue on with the maintenance job.
NOTE: Custom commands are run as a spawned process via a NON-INTERACTIVE service (L8SVJobManager). Therefore, when the custom command is run it will not visually show up at the console, instead it will be run in the background. Therefore, when using this feature be sure to only run a command that can auto complete, i.e. a batch file or other executable with command line parameters that will start and finish on its own without any user interaction.
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