Run a package without a URL

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(imported topic written by jprev91)

Hello,

I hope you can help me. This is my first time writing a custom template and I am not sure what I am doing. I have a zip file that needs to go out to clients, get extracted and run a .bat that is contained in the extracted contents. I have looked through the site and found that copying from a network share is not a good idea, but I don’t have a valid URL to host the files from. I thought I could fake it out by putting a fake URL and precacheing the file on the server, but I get jobdownloadfailed in the client log and I can see it trying to connect to the fake URL so I am sure I am doing something wrong. Adding a webserver to host the files is not an option.

prefetch block

add prefetch item name= batch.zip sha1=4b9e832c830182219d1fd7e838c202d4a67b1ea size=5339581 url=http:\example\batch.zip

end prefetch block

extract batch.zip

I am not sure what to do after extracting batch.zip. I was trying to see where it was extracted to so i could add more lines to run the batch file inside.

Any help would be very appreciated.

Thanks,

Jessie

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(imported comment written by jeremylam)

Have you followed the instructions here to manually cache the file on the server?

http://support.bigfix.com/cgi-bin/kbdirect.pl?id=500

It might be simpler to also use a simpler “prefetch” statement instead of a prefetch block. You’ll also need to stop the existing action and create a new one.

Also, the “extract” command doesn’t work on zip files, it’s specific to a BESArchiver utility. Here are some instructions and a link:

http://support.bigfix.com/cgi-bin/kbdirect.pl?id=452

Hope this helps.