Remote Commands

Commands let you act on a device without physically touching it or setting up remote desktop access. Every command you run is logged, with its full output, against the device it ran on.

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What each command does

Restart and Shutdown are acknowledged before they execute — the device won’t be around to confirm afterward, so you’ll see “accepted” rather than “completed” for these two.

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Running one

From the Commands page (New Command) or from any device’s own page — running from the device page skips having to pick a target, since you’re already looking at it. Picking a target follows the same shape everywhere in AssetGullak: a single device, a whole location or department, or your entire company. Quick actions are listed first, Run Custom Script is separate and secondary — you shouldn’t have to scroll past a raw script box to restart a device.

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Run Script is more restricted, on purpose

Every other command does one specific, bounded thing. A script can do anything a person sitting at that machine could do — which is why it’s gated differently:

• Only Owner, Admin, and IT Admin can run scripts — IT Operator can issue every other command type but not this one. See Roles & Permissions for why.
• Scripts run with a 5-minute timeout — if it hasn’t finished by then, it’s killed and reported as timed out, so a hung script can’t tie up a device indefinitely.
• Output is capped at roughly 20,000 characters — a script that produces a huge amount of output gets truncated rather than overwhelming the result view.

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Command results

Every command’s detail view shows exit code, stdout, and stderr. When you target more than one device, you get a batch — one job with a per-device breakdown, so you can see at a glance which devices succeeded and which didn’t, rather than opening each one individually.

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Where results are logged

Every command run appears on the target device’s own Timeline tab, and the full batch history lives on the Commands page — searchable by status (pending, running, completed, failed).