update vmware tool after patching windows hosts

[michaelb]

Hello,
i have a file in which 20 hosts are entered. Each host is patched with a task scheduler. All hosts have the same task. Now I want to add a “local command” to the end of the task. This should now call a PS script that updates the vmware tools. To do this, I want to read the host name from the line and write it into a PS variable. I want to use this variable in a separate PS script to update the vmware tools. Maybe I can run the “local command” with a parameter that can pass the hostname to my PS script? Now my question is, is this possible, and if so, how?

Thanks
Michael

[doug]

FYI in case there was any confusion I just want to note that a “local command” in BatchPatch will execute on the BatchPatch computer. A “remote command” in BatchPatch will execute on the target computer.

Use $computer as the parameter in the command. When BatchPatch sees $computer in the command, it will replace it with the computer name from the Host column when it executes the command.

A couple of examples of this are shown in the following tutorials:

advanced-script-integration-with-batchpatch

incorporating-custom-scripts-in-batchpatch-get-local-administrators-group-membership

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