The emdash™ Console App

1st September 2019

NOTE THE EMDASH CONSOLE APPLICATION HAS BEEN DEPRECATED DUE TO THE IMPLEMENTATION OF IN-BUILD SCHEDULING FUNCTIONS.

In addition to the emdash™ Self-Service web-based interface, there is also a 'Console' application.

This is used to kick off emdash™ workflows from a command prompt.  This also means that these emdash™ workflows can be scheduled with a batch scheduling tool, or Windows Task Manager.

The console app is found on your emdash™ server under c:\emdash\console.app

Usage parameters can be displayed by opening a command prompt as follows

Console App Functions and Parameters

The workflows that are included in the console app are:

• Usercount - runs a process to loop through all Citrix Servers looking for users that are running a master.exe session.  Records the details in an emdash data table 'ConcurrentUser' which can then be queried to see how many concurrent Endur/Findur user sessions are open at any period of time.
• emdash.console.exe /inputfunction:usercount
• Housekeeping - Runs a process to purge the Fileshare of old archived 'resources' folders.
• emdash.console.exe /inputfunction:housekeeping
• Environment Refresh (the default).  Details below...

The following parameters are to be passed to the console app for an Environment Refresh

/sourceenv:<Environment Name>

- The environment that you want to refresh from.  Note that the last available backup file for that environment's database will be used in the refresh.

/targetenv:<Environment Name>

- The environment that you want to refresh.

/backupfirst:<true or false>

- Set to 'true' if you want a backup of the target environment taken before it is overwritten.

/inputfunction:makelikesource

- Optional parameter.  If you don't want a 'Make Like Source' environment refresh (one that redeploys all of the code binaries that are assigned to the Source environment, to the Target environment) then omit the parameter altogether.