# Actions and property collectors
**URL:** https://www.finalbuilder.com/forums/t/actions-and-property-collectors/6752
**Category:** Discussion
**Tags:** actions, continua-ci
**Created:** [March 25, 2020, 8:22am UTC](https://www.finalbuilder.com/forums/t/actions-and-property-collectors/6752 "2020-03-25T08:22:04Z")
**Posts on this page:** 6
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### Author:  [@rynardald](https://www.finalbuilder.com/forums/u/rynardald)
#### Post date: [March 25, 2020, 8:22am UTC](https://www.finalbuilder.com/forums/t/actions-and-property-collectors/6752/1 "2020-03-25T08:22:05Z")
Hi VSoft,
which property collector is used by the Run DOS Command action? And is there a way how I can see for each action which property collectors they are using?
My problem is that on one agent my Run DOS Command works (a simple ping 127.0.0.1) and on a other Agent i get the error ‘The executable was not found at path “”.’. And I get also no notification that my second agent is not compatible with that stage. I’m not sure but for me it looks like a problem with a property collector which is not set on the second Agent.
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### Author:  [@Vincent](https://www.finalbuilder.com/forums/u/Vincent)
#### Post date: [March 25, 2020, 8:30am UTC](https://www.finalbuilder.com/forums/t/actions-and-property-collectors/6752/2 "2020-03-25T08:30:20Z")
The Run dos command doesn’t use property collectors, it uses the ComSpec environment variable. Have
a look at the environment variables for that agent. The comspec typically points to
```
C:\WINDOWS\system32\cmd.exe
```
is it possible that C:\Windows\System32\PING.EXE is missing?
I would also check that your system path isn’t messed up.
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### Author:  [@rynardald](https://www.finalbuilder.com/forums/u/rynardald)
#### Post date: [March 26, 2020, 9:47am UTC](https://www.finalbuilder.com/forums/t/actions-and-property-collectors/6752/3 "2020-03-26T09:47:37Z")
Hi Vincent,
the system which does not work does not have a environment variable called ‘ComSpec’. It’s a window Server 2016. Is it possible that this variable is not set in never windows server versions?
BTW: The ‘Windows.cmd’ property collector is found.
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### Author:  [@Vincent](https://www.finalbuilder.com/forums/u/Vincent)
#### Post date: [March 26, 2020, 9:53am UTC](https://www.finalbuilder.com/forums/t/actions-and-property-collectors/6752/4 "2020-03-26T09:53:00Z")
Which edition of Windows Server is it? As far as I can remember, every version of windows since 3 has had the comspec variable, and the windows 2016 servers we have here do.
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### Author:  [@rynardald](https://www.finalbuilder.com/forums/u/rynardald)
#### Post date: [March 26, 2020, 10:18am UTC](https://www.finalbuilder.com/forums/t/actions-and-property-collectors/6752/5 "2020-03-26T10:18:14Z")
It’s a windows server 2016 standard
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### Author:  [@Sparky](https://www.finalbuilder.com/forums/u/Sparky)
#### Post date: [March 30, 2020, 8:14am UTC](https://www.finalbuilder.com/forums/t/actions-and-property-collectors/6752/6 "2020-03-30T08:14:11Z")
Hi Albrecht,
We have added a property collector to the Run DOS Command / Batch File action in [version 1.9.1.638](https://www.finalbuilder.com/downloads/continuaci/continua-ci-version-history-v191) to handle this situation.