Tactical RMM: scripts, tasks and custom fields
For technicians and administrators who automate with Tactical RMM: the Scripts Manager and community scripts, script types, passing arguments, environment variables and dashboard data ({{agent.hostname}}, custom fields, the global key store), running scripts on one or many agents, the SYSTEM context and RunAsUser, automated tasks and their triggers, collector tasks that fill custom fields, snippets and URL actions.
- Level
- Intermediate
- Length
- About 55 minutes
- Contents
- 3 lessons · 1 video · final exam
- Status
- Published · updated 2 Oct 2026
- Tactical RMM · free, source available
Skills you'll practise
- Add a script to the Scripts Manager with the right type, defaults and timeout, and know what community scripts are
- Pass dashboard data, custom fields and key store values into scripts with correctly cased {{ }} variables
- Choose between script arguments and environment variables when a value must not be logged
- Explain what RunAsUser can and can't do compared with the agent's SYSTEM context
- Build automated tasks with the right trigger, and a collector task that saves output to a custom field
Course outline
- 1.Tactical RMM: scripts, tasks and custom fieldsVideo · 1 min
- 2.The script libraryLesson · 16 min
- 3.Running scripts and passing dataLesson · 20 min
- 4.Automated tasks, collector tasks and URL actionsLesson · 19 min
- 5.Tactical RMM: scripts, tasks and custom fields: knowledge checkKnowledge check · 16 questions
- 6.Final exam9 questions · passing it completes the course, so people who already know the material can test out
Sources it draws on
The lessons and questions are written from these references, so learners can go back to the original.
- Scripting (script types, arguments, environment variables, snippets)
- Script variables
- Global key store
- Custom fields
- Automated tasks (triggers, actions, collector tasks)
- URL actions
- How it all works (URLs, services, agent, Windows update management, logs)
- Tips and tricks (monitoring endpoint, run intervals, MeshCentral, Chocolatey)
- API access
See it with your own jobs and topics
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