Starting Scripts and Applications in Response to an Event

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We can start an application or a script on the occurence of certain events. This is done to start administrative scripts to perform corrective actions. For example, if a disk runs low on space, you could start a script that deletes temporary files, or if a service fails, a script could restart it.

Our sample, on the other hand, is kept quite simple again. We just show how to generically start an exe file. To do so, we define a new rule, name "Application starts" below. Again, we use the imaginary event 592 as a filter condition. Therefore, the application will start whenever event 592 comes in.


Starting Scripts and Applications in Response to an Event - Figure 1

The start program action is just a "normal" action:


Starting Scripts and Applications in Response to an Event - Figure 2

In the "Start Program" action's parameters, select the file to run as well as all parameters to be supplied to it (if any).


Starting Scripts and Applications in Response to an Event - Figure 3

Once this configuration is done, the program will be executed as soon as an event matching the filter condition comes in.