getURL()

Returns the text and HTML contents of a URL and stores it to a file on the managed machine. To demonstrate this to yourself, try specifying www.kaseya.com as the URL and c:\temp\test.htm as the file to store the contents of this URL. A copy of the web page is created on the managed machine that contains all of the text and HTML content of this webpage. You can search the contents of the file on the managed machine in a subsequent command.

Another use is to download an executable file that is available from a web server, so that you don't need to upload the file to the VSA server nor use the VSA's bandwidth to write the file down to each agent. You can use a subsequent command to run the downloaded executable on the managed machine.

NOTE   This command can download files from a LAN file source instead of the URL using Agent > Configure Agents > LAN Cache. Files have to be larger than 4k bytes.

Example

getURL("http:\\www.kaseya.com", "c:\temp\test.htm", "Continue Immediately", "All Operating Systems", "Halt on Fail")