Action to run only if certain services are running

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(imported topic written by Franco78)

Is it possible to run a fixlet (microsoft patch) on a system, restart it, but add a success criteria line that checks for running services? So the action will not be completed until after it restarts the system and checks for running services.

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(imported comment written by jgolembi)

Franco78,

Yes you can. In the past when I have been asked to do this I have created a second fixlet then added that to a baseline to detect the state of a machine and report on Failure.

Attached is an example of relevance to add to the custom success criteria. This could be added to a copied fixlet IE MS12-054

OR

this could be added to a secondary task. Your choice.

//because we need this to evaluate false we dummy it up. 
if (number of running services whose (display name of it="IBM Standard Asset Manager Service") = 1) then False else True

-John G

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(imported comment written by SystemAdmin)

The action would just fail if you depend on having a running service that won’t come back until a restart. Though it would “fix” itself when the system restarted.

If you require a restart to complete an action put the actionscript:

action requires restart

Then the status will be pending restart until the restart happens.