In Microsoft System Center Configuration Manager 2007, you run a Configuration Manager 2007 client action by calling the PerformAction method on the actions retrieved by CPAppletMgr object GetClientActions method.

To run a Configuration Manager client action

  1. Get the Configuration Manager client Control Panel manager object (CPAppletMgr).

  2. From CPAppletMgr, call GetClientActions to retrieve a collection of Configuration Manager client actions.

  3. Loop through the collection and call PerformAction for each action you want to perform.

Example

The following example method gets the Configuration Manager client actions and performs each one by calling PerformAction.

For information about calling the sample code, see How to Call Configuration Manager COM Automation Objects.

Visual Basic Script  Copy Code 
Sub PerformAction

On Error Resume Next

	Dim oCPAppletMgr ' Control Applet manager object
	Dim oClientAction ' Individual client action
	Dim oClientActions ' A collection of client actions

	' Get the Control Panel applet manager object.
	Set  oCPAppletMgr=CreateObject("CPApplet.CPAppletMgr")
	If err.number <> 0 Then
		Wscript.echo "Couldn't create control panel application manager"
		Exit Sub
	End If

	' Get a collection of actions.
	Set oClientActions=oCPAppletMgr.GetClientActions
	If err.number<>0 Then
		wscript.echo "Couldn't get the client actions"
		Set oCPAppletMgr=Nothing
		Exit Sub
	End If

	' Display each client action name and perform it.
	For Each oClientAction In oClientActions
		wscript.echo oClientAction.name
		oClientAction.PerformAction
		wscript.echo
	Next

	Set oClientActions=Nothing
	Set oCPAppletMgr=Nothing

End Sub
C#  Copy Code 
public void PerformAction()
{
	try
	{

		CPAppletMgr cpAppletMgr = new CPAppletMgr();

		ClientActions clientActions = cpAppletMgr.GetClientActions();

		foreach (ClientAction action in clientActions)
		{
			Console.WriteLine("Name: " + action.Name);
			action.PerformAction();
			Console.WriteLine();
	}
}
	catch (COMException e)
	{
		Console.WriteLine("Error performing actions: " + e.Message);
		throw;
}

}

The example method has no parameters:

Compiling the Code

This C# example requires:

Namespaces

System

System.Collections.Generic

System.Text

System.Runtime.InteropServices

CPAPPLETLib

Assemblies

CPApplet 1.0 Type Library

Robust Programming

For more information about error handling, see About Configuration Manager Errors.

Security

For more information about securing Configuration Manager applications, see About Securing Configuration Manager Applications.

See Also

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