Whats the best way to monitor how many times someone resets their print spooler?

[Zezima]

Hi,

 

Sicne I've been at this school (sept 2013) there has been an issue where the printers grey out and you can not print. The solution is to run a .bat file which just resets the spooler service.

 

Does anyone the best way to montior/work out how many times a PC (or user) has run the printer refresh batch file.

 

Im thinking either writing some code in the batch file which remotely records when a PC has run the file (workstations remotes onto server when batch is run_... or maybe through event logs? Can I remotely see when a file has been run? or something?

 

My last resort would be to write it up in c# so I have a bit more power... but really want to stick with the batch file for permission issues and just for the sake of keeping it simple.

[howartp]

Off the top of my head (though I know there are issues with using time in dos scripts) :

 

echo %time% > \\server\share\pcname.log

[Jamo]

Off the top of my head (though I know there are issues with using time in dos scripts) :

 

echo %time% > \\server\share\pcname.log

 

Make sure its got a >> else you will overwrite the file each time. Also need date and time

 

echo %date% %time% %COMPUTERNAME% %USERNAME% >> \\server\share\log.log

Edited May 20, 2015 by Jamo