Problem with Performance Monitor Alerts and "Run As" command

[Guest Daniel Clemow]

I have encountered this problem on two servers, one Win2003 sp1, and the

other SP2. I'm trying to create an alert for a low disk space condition, and

have a script all configured, and an account for the "Run As" that is a

member of "Performance Log Users" and "Performance Monitor Users", has log on

locally permission, and can actually run the script without problems when

logged on.

 

When creating the Performance Alert and this user is put into Administrators

group it runs ok, but that's not ideal.

When taken out, the error below is created in the Application Event Log:

Source: SysmonLog, Event ID: 2038

Unable to execute command '' for the Low Disk Space alert. The alert will

continue as scheduled. The error code returned is in the data.

 

I have attempted to dumb down the script, in case there's a problem with

something in it, so even just : time /t > c:\temp\test.txt doesn't run.

 

Also - another observation is - the program does not even attempt to run at

all of no command line arguments are selected - another bug?

 

Can anyone else reproduce this problem, or even better know how to resolve?

I'm hoping it's something I haven't got right rather than having to wait for

a bug fix.

 

I would LOVE to get this resolved! :-)

[Guest Jon]

Re: Problem with Performance Monitor Alerts and "Run As" command

 

If it runs as an admin then there must be a permissions problem.

First check that the account has read and execute permissions to the

script that you are running, and also that BATCH has permissions to

the script interpreter

 

e.g. If you are running cmd /c .... or cscript .... then find cmd.exe

or cscript.exe and give BATCH read and execute permissions.

 

Hope this helps

 

Jon

 

 

On Feb 7, 3:55 am, Daniel Clemow <Daniel

Cle...@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote:

> I have encountered this problem on two servers, one Win2003 sp1, and the

> other SP2. I'm trying to create an alert for a low disk space condition, and

> have a script all configured, and an account for the "Run As" that is a

> member of "Performance Log Users" and "Performance Monitor Users", has log on

> locally permission, and can actually run the script without problems when

> logged on.

>

> When creating the Performance Alert and this user is put into Administrators

> group it runs ok, but that's not ideal.

> When taken out, the error below is created in the Application Event Log:

> Source: SysmonLog, Event ID: 2038

> Unable to execute command '' for the Low Disk Space alert.   The alert will

> continue as scheduled. The error code returned is in the data.

>

> I have attempted to dumb down the script, in case there's a problem with

> something in it, so even just :  time /t > c:\temp\test.txt doesn't run.

>

> Also - another observation is - the program does not even attempt to run at

> all of no command line arguments are selected - another bug?

>

> Can anyone else reproduce this problem, or even better know how to resolve?  

> I'm hoping it's something I haven't got right rather than having to wait for

> a bug fix.

>

> I would LOVE to get this resolved!   :-)

[Guest Daniel Clemow]

Re: Problem with Performance Monitor Alerts and "Run As" command

 

Hi Jon,

 

This was a great help, This lead me to the Microsoft article:

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/867466

 

Which explained it all.

 

Thanks a lot.

 

Daniel.

 

"Jon" wrote:

> If it runs as an admin then there must be a permissions problem.

> First check that the account has read and execute permissions to the

> script that you are running, and also that BATCH has permissions to

> the script interpreter

>

> e.g. If you are running cmd /c .... or cscript .... then find cmd.exe

> or cscript.exe and give BATCH read and execute permissions.

>

> Hope this helps

>

> Jon

>

>

> On Feb 7, 3:55 am, Daniel Clemow <Daniel

> Cle...@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote:

> > I have encountered this problem on two servers, one Win2003 sp1, and the

> > other SP2. I'm trying to create an alert for a low disk space condition, and

> > have a script all configured, and an account for the "Run As" that is a

> > member of "Performance Log Users" and "Performance Monitor Users", has log on

> > locally permission, and can actually run the script without problems when

> > logged on.

> >

> > When creating the Performance Alert and this user is put into Administrators

> > group it runs ok, but that's not ideal.

> > When taken out, the error below is created in the Application Event Log:

> > Source: SysmonLog, Event ID: 2038

> > Unable to execute command '' for the Low Disk Space alert. The alert will

> > continue as scheduled. The error code returned is in the data.

> >

> > I have attempted to dumb down the script, in case there's a problem with

> > something in it, so even just : time /t > c:\temp\test.txt doesn't run.

> >

> > Also - another observation is - the program does not even attempt to run at

> > all of no command line arguments are selected - another bug?

> >

> > Can anyone else reproduce this problem, or even better know how to resolve?

> > I'm hoping it's something I haven't got right rather than having to wait for

> > a bug fix.

> >

> > I would LOVE to get this resolved! :-)

>

>