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THAM Healthcheck

Healthcheck (for Arlington Memorial)

Another bespoke application for part of the (very large) Arlington Memorial conversion. After deployments were done, this healthcheck script was run in place of having to manually go through checking each of ~20 pieces of information. It was essentially a one-click solution that verified the computer name and minimum hardware (warning if too low),  checked it was in the proper OU, then checked a dozen software packages or shortcuts and installed them if missing, silently or passively if possible. It also checked for the computer record in our Quickbase project site, and verified information there.
Debug version, clearly. Too many things to list or remember without looking through the source. Suffice to say, it did a lot, and helped our workflow immensely, eliminating human error almost entirely (think typing in serial numbers and asset tags by hand, and then relying on those later...!)
The Settings page turned into a Quickbase form filler. It retrieved what was in the Quickbase record (on the right), then took the relevant pieces of information from the machine (on the left), allowed manual editing, then had a button that would update the fields via Quickbase's HTTP API. A really nifty little tool that saved us a ton of man-hours, except for later when I was asked to update every CI record in Service Manager... Whoops.
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