System Administration
The System Administration steps support managing your Windows services. In addition, you can clear and search Windows Event logs.
System Administration – Check Service Status
Job Step Properties
MachineName – This property represents the target Windows machine of the Service you want to check.
ServiceName – This property represents the Service.
Return Step Value
CheckServiceStatus – This property contains the Win32 status of the Service.
System Administration – Clear Event Log
This job step allows you to clear the Windows Event Log on a remote machine.
Job Step Properties
MachineName – This property represents the target Windows machine of the Event Log you wish to clear.
LogName – This property represents the actual Event Log you wish to clear.
System Administration – Search Event Log
This job step allows you to search for a Windows Event Log entry.
Job Step Properties
MachineName – This property represents the target Windows machine of the Event Log you wish to search.
LogName – This property represents the actual Event Log you wish to search.
Value – This property represents the text string of the Event Log entry you wish to find.
System Administration – Pause/Resume/Start/Stop Service
These job steps will Pause/Resume, Start/Stop a Windows Service.
Job Step Properties
MachineName – This property represents the target Windows machine whose Windows Service will be either Paused/Resume/Started or Stopped depending the job step.
ServiceName – This property represents the Windows Service name. Clicking on the dropdown will produce a list of services defined on the target machine. Please select one (1) service for the operation to be performed on.
Timeout – This property represents the time, in seconds, that the job step will wait for the operation to complete before timing out. The default value is 30 seconds.