Revisiting this today I discovered (by adding a pause in my script) the issue was that Servers alive was not accessing the path to the file as I thought and instead was setting the exit code to a non-numeric value. This was interpreted by Salive as a 0. I used the full path in that place in my batch and it is working now. Thank you everyone for your help.
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From: "Demeulemeester, Pieter" <pieter.demeulemees...@fracarita.org> To: Servers Alive Discussion List <salive@woodstone.nu> Sent: 12/10/2015 2:35 AM Subject: RE: [SA-list] ErrorLevel AGAIN Hi, I use the âExternal (errorlevel)â check with success. If fact, itâs one of my favorite checks because it allows to check âeverything I want, as far as I can do a command line checkâ. I use it with CMD-files and PS1-files. Not with BAT-files, but in most cases you can just rename the BAT into a CMD file. I have 2 dummy batches (CMD and PS1) which I use to troubleshoot the check in SA : 1. AlwaysError5.cmd exit /B 5 2. AlwaysError5.ps1 exit 5 My config: · SA version 7.2.2628 · Win2012 · External (errorlevel) check, Alarm when MyBatchFile.cmd is <> from 0, Kill the external application when not stopped in time=ON, Timeout=5 sec. Kind regards, Pieter From: Servers Alive Discussion List [mailto:salive@woodstone.nu] On Behalf Of dirk Sent: woensdag 9 december 2015 20:31 To: Servers Alive Discussion List Subject: RE: [SA-list] ErrorLevel AGAIN I think the answer is simple. Servers Alive can capture the ERRORLEVEL set by the application that is actualy executed. And to execute a .BAT file the OS will (behind the scene) launch the command interpreter and this command interpreter will execute your BAT file. The errorlevel we get back in Servers Alive is the one that is set by the command interpreter, not the one by the .BAT file executed within the command interpreter. If you start a command prompt and then the .BAT file, the OS can directly execute the .BAT without having to start another command interpreter. And then it's possible to see the actual errorlevel that is returned by the .BAT file. I personaly don't see a way to get the errorlevel back into SA when the OS is not returning it via the command interpreter back to the actual caller (SA). So the answer is (I think) it's not possible with a .BAT file. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: Servers Alive Discussion List [mailto:salive@woodstone.nu (mailto:salive@woodstone.nu)] On Behalf Of Jason Passow Sent: Wednesday, December 09, 2015 6:15 PM To: Servers Alive Discussion List Subject: Re: [SA-list] ErrorLevel AGAIN Full path to the .bat file. C:\Program Files (x86)\CountError\CountError.bat no quotes or extra characters. The batch file is running because it writes results to a file (output.txt). That file is changing but the errorlevel is returned as 0 every time. Jason Passow Network Administrator http://www.mwsco.com (http://www.mwsco.com) jas...@mwsco.com (mailto:jas...@mwsco.com) ph: (507) 494-5178 fax: (507) 454-8104 Mississippi Welder Supply Co., Inc. 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From: dirk <d...@woodstone.nu (mailto:d...@woodstone.nu)> To: Servers Alive Discussion List <salive@woodstone.nu (mailto:salive@woodstone.nu)> Sent: 12/9/2015 10:55 AM Subject: RE: [SA-list] ErrorLevel AGAIN  How are you calling the bat file in Servers Alive? -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: Servers Alive Discussion List [mailto:salive@woodstone.nu (mailto:salive@woodstone.nu)] On Behalf Of Jason Passow Sent: Wednesday, December 09, 2015 5:35 PM To: Servers Alive Discussion List Subject: Re: [SA-list] ErrorLevel AGAIN Mine returns in less than 3 seconds. I have changed the timeout to 30 with the same result. Jason Passow Network Administrator http://www.mwsco.com (http://www.mwsco.com) jas...@mwsco.com (mailto:jas...@mwsco.com) ph: (507) 494-5178 fax: (507) 454-8104 Mississippi Welder Supply Co., Inc. 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From: Roderick Garcia <roderick.gar...@cancer.org (mailto:roderick.gar...@cancer.org)> To: Servers Alive Discussion List <salive@woodstone.nu (mailto:salive@woodstone.nu)> Sent: 12/9/2015 10:20 AM Subject: RE: [SA-list] ErrorLevel AGAIN I had a similar issue and mine turned out to be the timeout setting with was at the default 5. I wasnâââ‰â¢t allocating enough time for the check to complete. Thus a false return. 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From: Servers Alive Discussion List [mailto:salive@woodstone.nu (mailto:salive@woodstone.nu)] On Behalf Of Jason Passow Sent: Wednesday, December 09, 2015 9:50 AM To: Servers Alive Discussion List Subject: [SA-list] ErrorLevel AGAIN I have a check which always returns error level 0. It should not and from a command line it indeed does not. Using the Checkerrorlevel that comes with salive it does indeed show 0. Output .txt contains 2 for /F "delims=" %%a in (output.txt) do ( set "SHELL_EXIT_CODE=%%a" ) exit %SHELL_EXIT_CODE% Command line results: C:\Program Files (x86)\CountError\>CountError.bat C:\Program Files (x86)\CountError\>echo %errorlevel% 2 Jason Passow Network Administrator http://www.mwsco.com (http://www.mwsco.com) jas...@mwsco.com (mailto:jas...@mwsco.com) ph: (507) 494-5178 fax: (507) 454-8104 Mississippi Welder Supply Co., Inc. 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