# What is "Powerful Computer Manager"?
Powerful Computer Manager is the super-simple-but-powerful program to automatizate tasks in groups of computers (In a Active Directory site, or not) in a unattended way.
It inteed to be a simple SSMS alternative, that inventarizes computers and install/remove software in it, tweak system of run arbitrary commands.

You only have to write simple _cooks_ that are small yaml text files, create groups of computers and assign _cooks_ to this computers, and will be run in the destination computers


# Disclaimer

I'm using this program in the company I work with 10 computers with Windows 8.1/10 with various software (MSI,EXE,...) and tweaking services, and it works right

It's not super-stable and error proof, then, I don't have any responsability if something crashes, but you can open a Issue and will see it

# Roadmap

GUI administration in Python to superseed Powershell CLI control program and be cross-platform

# Requirements

## Server
For server you can use Linux or Windows, and in theory any environment that can run Python 3 can work as server
-	Python3 with:
		- Falcon
		- Waitress-serve
		- Json (Python3 have it preinstalled)
		- Yaml
	Python3 deps can be installed it using pip install command (pip install waitress falcon pyyaml)
-   For controlling the program, you have to use "control.ps1" using Powershell. Powershell comes with Windows, and can be installed (PWCore) in Linux and macOS (I didn't tested it).

## Clients
-	Windows:
	-	Windows 7 SP1 absolute minimal, but its only officially tested in 8.1 and 10, Windows 7 is being old now.
	-	It needs Powershell 5.0+, lower versions doesn't have some commands, not tested. In Windows 7 and 8.1, you have to update Powershell. (With Powershell 3.0/4.0, some commands like Get-Package doesn't work)
		You can update from here: https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/powershell/scripting/setup/installing-windows-powershell?view=powershell-6#upgrading-existing-windows-powershell

-	Linux:
	-	Not supported yet, but when Windows be stable, I will try to do it in some way


# Instalation. Example installing Server and using a GPO of Active Directory/Task Schedule to make it work in clients
-   Copy this folder to a folder in your server
-	Install dependencies
-	Open sysopt.py file and change values if needed
-	Use bat file if you are in Windows to run the python server, or sh file if you are in Linux environment
-	Go to Client folder and copy "configexample.ps1" to "config.ps1" and change their values to yours.
-   For clients to work, they have to run "client\client.ps1" every 30 mins/1 hour or so, I did using Active Directory and a Task Scheduled GPO (Copying client.ps1 and config.ps1 files from Client to SysVol\DomainName\Scripts\)
    - User: SYSTEM    (Or NT\SYSTEM)
    - Command: powershell.exe
    - Args: -executionpolicy bypass -windowstyle hidden -noninteractive -nologo -file "\\SERVER\SysVol\DOMAINNAME\scripts\client.ps1"
	Note: client.ps1 has to have control.ps1 file with it
-	If you don't have Active Directory, you can do the Task Scheduled task in every computer without problems, and using another Shared folder, it will work