General Options apply to all scripts, whether user, managed, on-demand or validation scripts.
Managed Scripts
Managed scripts are maintained & updated on a regular basis, updates are available to evaluation users and customers with active maintenance agreements. Users can supplement managed scripts with their own, but managed scripts cannot be modified.
Auto-Update
Published validation scripts can be updated in multiple ways:
1. Manual
Scripts are updated by clicking the "Check Now" button. If an update is available, the user will be prompted to apply it.
2. Prompt
The management console will check for updates every time it is launched and, if a new version is available, ask the user to apply it.
3. Automatic
The management console will check for updates every time it is launched and automatically apply a new update.
4. Automatic (Background)
The EventSentry Sync service regularly checks for validation script updates and automatically applies them in the background. The service will log informational event id 14201 from the event source "EventSentry" to the application event log when new validation scripts are applied.
Options 1-3 require that the user save the configuration before the updated validation scripts are permanently saved and thus utilized by the EventSentry agent(s).
Launch Folder
This is the directory where the scripts will reside on disk and executed from. The default setting is %SYSTEMROOT%\system32\eventsentry.scripts, and can be customized by changing the Launch Folder.
Embedded scripts that are assigned to a particular host will be created in the launch folder of that computer when the agent is started. If a script is not assigned, meaning that is neither used by an application schedule, process action or validation scripts package, then it will not be created in the file system. Scripts in the launch folder will be deleted when the agent is stopped.
Restrict Permissions
The launch folder inherits its permissions from the parent folder by default, which will differ depending on the OS. To ensure that only the agent has access to the script files in the launch folder, you can check the Restrict Permissions check box. This will ensure that only the account the EventSentry service is running under (LocalSystem by default) will have (NTFS) permission to access the file(s).
