# Launching Automation from the command line

**URL:** <https://forums.toadworld.com/t/launching-automation-from-the-command-line/34662>\
**Category:** Toad Data Point & Toad Intelligence Central\
**Created:** [December 11, 2015, 2:38am UTC](https://forums.toadworld.com/t/launching-automation-from-the-command-line/34662 "2015-12-11T02:38:49Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 4\
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**Author:** ![spligosh](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/e68b1a/32.png) [@spligosh](https://forums.toadworld.com/u/spligosh)\
**Post date:** [December 11, 2015, 2:38am UTC](https://forums.toadworld.com/t/launching-automation-from-the-command-line/34662/1 "2015-12-11T02:38:49Z")

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As it is a known issue that scheduling doesn’t work on a VM Server if the automation author isn’t logged in - is it possible to launch Toad Data Point and an automation from the command line? We have a batch processing team who could kick off our monthly processing for us but it would need to be scripted in ControlM

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**Author:** ![mercier104\_000](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/8e8cbc/32.png) [@mercier104\_000](https://forums.toadworld.com/u/mercier104_000)\
**Post date:** [December 11, 2015, 4:44am UTC](https://forums.toadworld.com/t/launching-automation-from-the-command-line/34662/2 "2015-12-11T04:44:27Z")

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Like that !

C:\Dell\Toad Data Point 3.8\toad.exe -batch=true “D:\TOAD\_Prod\_Bots\Environnement\32231\_Referentiel\32231\_3.8\_Quotidien\_Referentiel\_Agences.tas”

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**Author:** ![Debbie\_Peabody](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/quest/user_avatar/forums.toadworld.com/debbie_peabody/32/18_2.png) [@Debbie\_Peabody](https://forums.toadworld.com/u/Debbie_Peabody)\
**Post date:** [December 11, 2015, 7:22pm UTC](https://forums.toadworld.com/t/launching-automation-from-the-command-line/34662/3 "2015-12-11T19:22:39Z")

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The command line above is correct. On the VM image so you have the schedular set to run it not logged on? The image has to be up and running.

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**Author:** ![spligosh](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/e68b1a/32.png) [@spligosh](https://forums.toadworld.com/u/spligosh)\
**Post date:** [December 14, 2015, 3:15am UTC](https://forums.toadworld.com/t/launching-automation-from-the-command-line/34662/4 "2015-12-14T03:15:53Z")

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Thanks for your replies both. We had some issues with it running correctly around user with batch privileges - when we used an automation id we forgot to get TDP set up for that user and it couldn’t see any of our connections. All sorted now though - thanks again