Script variable trimming

Posted on May 8th, 2009

Suppose you are trying to run some scripts based on a command line variable, but the variable being passed to it is surrounded by quote marks.

i.e. “device_name” when all i want is device_name

There is an easy way to trim this. In the script need to set this passed variable to a seperate variable, and then trim it byt doing the following:

SET tempvariable=%1                 (need to set %%1 if its run as a script file)

echo %1                          (will show “device_name”)

echo %tempvariable%     (will show “device_name”)

echo %tempvariable:~1,-1%       (will show device_name)

The trimmed variable can then be used for another task, i.e. to start a service on a remote server

sc \\%tempvariable:~1,-1% start “ServiceName”

Happy trimming!

Tags: ", %1, clean, cmd, device_name, edgesight, remove, sc, script, set, trimming, variable
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Script to export all the servers in a Citrix Farm

Posted on April 27th, 2009

Sometimes it is useful to have a list of servers in a text file in order to perform some other task. The following script will export all servers from a Citrix Farm and add them to a text file.

This script uses the built in Citrix tool, qfarm, and cleans up the output to provide the required list. It uses a temporary file (qfarmservers.txt) during the process and deletes it at the end.

REM ***************************************************
REM qfarmservers = output from a qfarm /servers
REM serverlist = cleaned up list of all servers in farm
REM ***************************************************

SET qfarmservers=c:\windows\temp\qfarmservers.txt
SET serverlist=c:\windows\temp\serverlist.txt

qfarm /servers >>%qfarmServers%
for /f “skip=3 tokens=1″ %%1 in (%qfarmservers%) do (
echo %%1 >> %serverlist%
)
Del %qfarmservers% /q

Just change the log file location(s) as required.

Tags: Citrix, export, Presentation Server, qfarm, script, server, serverlist, servers, text, XenApp
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MFCOM script to export the current users of an application

Posted on April 27th, 2009

Sometimes is is necessary to have a list of users in a text file of which other scripts can be run. In this case I wanted a list of all users currently logged into a specific Citrix application in order to perform some other task.

The following MFCOM script will export all the users currently logged into a specified application and export them to a text file.

Set objFarm = CreateObject(“MetaFrameCOM.MetaFrameFarm”)

Dim ObjFSO, Objuserlist
Set objFSO = CreateObject(“Scripting.FileSystemObject”)
Set Objuserlist = objFSO.OpenTextFile(“c:\windows\temp\userlist.log”, 8, True)

objFarm.Initialize(1)

For Each objSession In objfarm.Sessions

if objsession.appname = (“My Application Name”) then
objuserlist.WriteLine(objSession.UserName)
End IF
Next

WScript.Echo “userlist created here – c:\windows\temp\userlist.log”

Substitute “My Application name” and the log file location as appropriate.

Save this as a .vbs file and run.

Tags: Citrix, export, list, mfcom, Presentation Server, scipt, user, vb
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