script to deploy nsclient++ agent

plz help its urgent

thanks

Hi Cawasaki,

This script seems pretty straightforward.  I'm going to post some code with the assumption that it might fail on your end.  If it does, please try to mess with the code to see if you can get it to work.  After you've researched the error and can't seem to produce a solution, please post back.  With that being said, here's what I've come up with as your starting skeleton.

#the script must get a server name from txt file in this form:
$Servers = Get-Content C:\Servers.txt

#in certain server, i have an old nsclient agent installed, so i need to uninstall it an install a new agent.
#This can be done with a registry check, or a simple check for the folder

#if old agent exist==>
if (Test-Path "C:\nsclient"){
#If we are in here, it means the folder exists so we have to uninstall the old version
#1- stop nsclient agent (agent is located in c:\nsclient), the command to stop agent is:  nsclient++.exe /stop
"Found old version of NSClient"
"Stopping Service..."
nsclient++.exe /stop

#2-uninstall agent (agent is located in c:\nsclient)  nsclient++.exe /uninstall
"Uninstalling NSClient..."
nsclient++.exe /uninstall

#3-delete c:\nsclient folder
"Deleting NSClient Folder..."
Remove-Item "C:\nsclient" -force
}#end removing old NSClient
#4-copy the new folder from a network share to "c:\"
"Copying NSClient Folder to C:\..."
Copy-Item "\\IP\SharedFolder\NSClientFolder" "C:\"

#5-install the new agent from the folder (c:\nsclient) ==>nsclient++.exe /install
"Installing NSClient"
c:\nsclient\nsclient++.exe /install


#6-start nsclient++ service ==>nsclient++.exe /startn
"Starting NSClient Service..."
c:\nsclient\nsclient++.exe /startn
#i need a small report after the execution of script to coonfirm the good install of agent.
$ServiceCheck = $null
$ServiceCheck = get-service "NSClient"
if ($ServiceCheck -eq $null){
"Service not found"
}
else
{
"NSClient Service Successfully installed and running"
}

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So after all that, this script is only useful locally.  Because NSClient++.exe is a program on the remote server, if you run it remotely, it will execute locally.  Unless you use PSRemoting to do this, you're forced to make it a startup script for a client computer.  This is the recommended way to do it.  Or you can make it a logon script for your admin account and log into each server and it will run automatically.  Remember you can't make a logon script a .ps1 file without being a Server 2008 environment, so you can use a batch file to call powershell with an argument to run a script from the local computer.  Again, this is tough as each phase of the process requires more help.

I'd like to be as much help as possible, but I don't think you can do this without some research on your end.

HTH,

Dale Harris

Hi Dale,

The script must work remotely, so you can add fo exemple the psexec use?

thanks

thanks Dale, i will use PSEXEC.