AREXX or Scripting DOpus

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Hello,

I might be completely wrong or have the wrong approach, but I still lack the automation features of my version of DOpus 4.12 (User since 3.41).

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It had that AREXX inteface that made the tool even mightier than the version was apart from that.

My problem is not so problematic, but it suits the situation I am in.
I even convinced my company (governmental organisation) to buy DOpus as I knew the software from private use.

I administrate a Citrix XenApp Farm with about 50 Servers in it. Their names match following scheme: "xyzname01" to "xyzname49".
I want to delete a specific folder - in this case "C:\Install" - that exists (or not) on every server in the farm.

This is a typical task I would do with opus if I knew how.

I have complete access to administrative shares on the servers and full domain admin rights.

For me a simple script like this (I put this in my words, this is no formal script language) would do:

For i=00 to 49 DO
Deletefolder \xyzserver%i\c$\Install -confirm -force -don'tStopOnError
Next i

Perhaps anyone who knows how to approach this in Opus??? Or if it is not possible now, how about future implementation??

Kind regards,
Oliver (from Germany)

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I'd normally use VBScript for something like that on Windows.

Since your example script has everything hardcoded, there isn't much to talk about in terms of Opus. You could just write a VBScript, save it into a.vbs file and run it (from Opus or wherever).

If you want the script to take arguments, like telling it the name of the folder to delete, you could do that using {dlgstring} in Opus to pass an argument to the VBScript.