# Command-line action from watcher
**URL:** https://discuss.elastic.co/t/command-line-action-from-watcher/126092
**Category:** Elasticsearch
**Tags:** elastic-stack-alerting
**Created:** [March 29, 2018, 12:44pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/command-line-action-from-watcher/126092 "2018-03-29T12:44:13Z")
**Posts on this page:** 3
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### Author:  [@annk](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/annk)
#### Post date: [March 29, 2018, 12:44pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/command-line-action-from-watcher/126092/1 "2018-03-29T12:44:13Z")
Is it possible to trigger a command-line script from watcher action ?
We have scripts that send alert to a ticketing system , I am trying to see if there is any way t trigger this script from watcher and pass parameters ?
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### Author:  [@spinscale](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/spinscale)
#### Post date: [March 29, 2018, 1:03pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/command-line-action-from-watcher/126092/2 "2018-03-29T13:03:13Z")
Because of the Java Security Manager in Elasticsearch it is not possible to spawn external processes.
You could however work around this by using a watcher webhook action, that sends data to logstash and its [http input](https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/logstash/6.2/plugins-inputs-http.html), which then executes your script using the [exec output](https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/logstash/6.2/plugins-outputs-exec.html)
Hope this helps!
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### Author:  [@system](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/system)
#### Post date: [April 26, 2018, 1:03pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/command-line-action-from-watcher/126092/3 "2018-04-26T13:03:20Z")
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