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Project A - Collecting services

1. Start the UMRA Console application and connect to the UMRA Service: Select UMRA Service, Connect… and connect to the computer on which the UMRA Service is installed.
2. Choose FileàNew. Select the option Form project and click OK. Enter the name of the project, Collect Services, and click OK.
3. First we will set up the action that creates and initializes the variable holding the name of the computer of which we want to manage the services.
4. Drag the Set variable script action into the script action window and configure this script action as shown in figure 25. In this example, the name of the computer is "SERVER_A".

   

   Figure 25 - Defining the variable for the computer name

   Next, we need to collect the service status information for the computer "SERVER_A".

5. In the Actions bar, drag the script action List services status from the Services folder to the script section window. Specify the properties for this script action as shown in figure 26.

   

   Figure 26 - Configuring the properties for the List services status script action

   The UMRA software will connect to the computer specified by %ComputerName% and collect the status of all services. The status information includes the name of the service, the operational state of each service (running, stopped), type of service (automatic, manual, disabled) and so on. This information is stored as a table in the variable %ServicesTable%. In other words, this single variable will hold a table with multiple rows and columns. The content of this variable can be displayed as a form table in another project for managing the collected services.

   Finally, the security settings for the project Collect Services must be specified.

6. Choose the Form properties command from the Actions menu and click the Security tab. For this exercise, you can set the group to "Everyone".
7. Save the project and close the project window

In the second project, a form table will be set up to display the content of the variable %ServicesTable%.