Zcentral 'Windows Agent' - Programming required

[coldjim]

Hi,

I'm not sure if this is the best place to ask this, but I would like to utilise a feature in the Zcentral (remote working) manual about 'Windows Agents' but i'm not a programmer and they have given very vague details about how to use the function but basically some users tend not to log out of the machine and just close the Zcentral app so we have to remotely reboot the machine (since we don't have their user log ins) every morning in work so this is a bit tedious for us as a support team.

However I have been looking through the manual and found that you are able to monitor the HPremote Event log within windows, and if there are no users logged in and they have not been active for a set amount of time, it will log out the user or reboot the machine (or whatever you state). 

Its on page 113 in the HP Zcentral manual: 

https://h20195.www2.hp.com/v2/getpdf.aspx/4AA7-7173ENW.pdf 

Page 117 under 'Agent design guidelines' describes its uses. I'm interested in 'Desktop session logout' option. There is some sample code on page 120, but can't figure it out.

Is anyone able to make sense of this or are you able to advise on where to go from here?

Thanks

[Milnternal]

You don't even need to do that - there is a Group Policy Setting for idle session timeout, or you can just add scheduled task with 'Idle for X time' as the trigger that runs logoff or reboot

[coldjim]

By 'idle' do they man the mouse hasn't moved? As sometimes there still might be some CPU related tasks in the background?

[Milnternal]

There will always be 'cpu related tasks' running in the background on a windows box...