Tip: How to Restart the SAPLogon via AutoIt

[stefan_schnell]

AutoIt is an incredible scripting language, it offers so much possibilities, e.g. to control processes and windows. Here now an example how to restart the SAPLogon on the fly:

;-Begin-----------------------------------------------------------------

 



  ;-Sub RestartProcess--------------------------------------------------

    Func RestartProcess($ProcessName)



      $PID = ProcessExists($ProcessName)

      If $PID Then



        $oWMI = ObjGet("winmgmts:\\.\root\CIMV2")

        If IsObj($oWMI) Then

          $Process = $oWMI.ExecQuery("Select * From win32_process " & _

            "Where Name = '" & $ProcessName & "'")

          If IsObj($Process) Then

            $ProcessPath = $Process.ItemIndex(0).ExecutablePath

          EndIf

        EndIf



        ProcessClose($PID)

        ProcessWait($PID)



        Run($ProcessPath)



      EndIf



    EndFunc



  ;-Sub Main------------------------------------------------------------

    Func Main()



      RestartProcess("saplogon.exe")

      WinWait("SAP Logon ")

      Sleep(4096)



    EndFunc



  ;-Main----------------------------------------------------------------

    Main()



;-End-------------------------------------------------------------------

As you can see it is absolut easy to get the process ID (PID), to close the process and to restart the process - here with the aid of Windows Management Instrumentarium (WMI).

Important hint: This script closes and restarts the saplogon process immediately, without any requests - all changes will be lost.

This script is excellent for stray processes on the frontend server.

Enjoy it.