How to execute ping command from scheduled job?

[Rajanmehta]

Hello

I am new bee to scripting in SNOW. We are on Jakarta.

I have following snippet from a scheduled job and need to run a ping command on a host to find out if the host responses or not. If ping fails I set host to retired.

I have some vision that this command has to run on a MID server and get the response back in the script, but no clue on how to do that.

Any help is greatly appreciated.

Thank you very much in advance.

while(rec.next()){

var lastDisco =rec.getValue('last_discovered');

var host = rec.getValue('name');

gs.addInfoMessage('Last Discovery Date:'+lastDisco+'     Host:'+host);

//Ping logic starts here

//   if(!PING){

//         rec.setValue('short_description','Retired');

//         rec.update();

//         gs.info('Host set for Retired');

//   }else{

//         gs.info("Host recently Discovered");

// }

}

[Mike Allen]

You would have to have Orchestration to do this, I believe.   You can run a command in a cmd prompt that will do it for you.   Just create a workflow that does it and call the workflow in the script.

https://docs.servicenow.com/bundle/geneva-it-operations-management/page/product/orchestration/refere...

[Rajanmehta]

Thanks Mike. Appreciate your response.

I have created a workflow which does a ping job on a host passed as a parameter.

Could you please let me know, how can I call that workflow in my above script?  

Thanks,

Rajan Mehta

[Shishir Srivast]

Please check if this helps: http://wiki.servicenow.com/index.php?title=Workflow_Script#startFlow.28workflowId.2C_current.2C_oper...

[Rajanmehta]

Thanks Shishir,

Based on document, I came up with following to trigger the WorkFlow.

var w = new Workflow();

w.startFlow('sysID',rec,'update',host);

This triggers the workflow OK. My next question is how do I assign this value of Host into Workflow?

workflow.scratchpad.hostname = ??