I'm looking for a way to be notified if any computers in my organization experience a bluescreen crash, including the specific error codes in the notification. The challenge I face is that I don't want to install additional software on each machine to parse the .dmp files. I've heard that PowerShell or CMD might not be able to handle these files. Does anyone have suggestions on how to accomplish this?
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You might want to consider implementing an agent that scans for new .dmp files on the computers. When it finds one, it can automatically transfer the file to a file share on a server that has the appropriate analysis tools. This would keep things centralized. Just keep in mind, if you're seeing a lot of bluescreens, it's a sign there might be deeper hardware or driver issues causing the crashes, which could stop the computers from booting properly.
Oh, and I found out about a tool called WhoCrashed that can analyze dump files from the command line. You could integrate that into your workflow.