Author: Shavlik
Category: Maintenance
Inputs: The name or ID of the process to be stopped.
Minimum ITScripts engine version required: 8.0.0.0
Modifies the target machine: Yes
Name: Terminate Process
Outputs: A status message indicating the result of the operation.
Purpose: This script allows you to terminate a process on a target machine.
Script Version: 1.0.0.2
Target Type: Any
Technical Description:
The process you want to terminate can be specified by an integer (representing a PID) or a string in quotes (representing the process name). Default is "taskmgr.exe".
Possible Operations Monitor results include:
"WMI connection to the target machine failed. Access is denied."
"WMI connection to the target machine failed. The machine may be offline or firewalled."
"Parameter 'process' must be a valid string (process name) or integer (PID)."
"No process with the name <process name> was found running on the system."
"No process with the ID <PID> was found running on the system."
"Process with name <process name> was successfully terminated."
"Process with ID <PID> was successfully terminated."
"An error occurred attempting to terminate the process with the name <process name>."
"An error occurred attempting to terminate the process with ID <PID>."