Action 1 (default)

// setup all of the scripts involved
action uses wow64 redirection false
parameter "FolderPath"="{pathname of data folder of client}\ChildProcessKiller"
delete __appendfile

// The following file will be a query passed to qna.exe.  It should output the list of process IDs to terminate -
appendfile Q: /* Do not remove this comment Version:1.3 */ pids of it of processes whose ((ppid of it = pid of service "BESClient") and (name of it != "BESClientUI.exe") AND (creation time of it > creation time of process (pid of service "BESClient")) and (now - creation time of it > value of setting "BESClient_ChildProcess_Timeout" of client as time interval) and (if not exists setting "BESClient_ChildProcess_ExcludeList" of client then true else (pid of it is not contained by  set of (pid of it; pids of processes (ppids of it); pids of processes (ppids of processes (ppids of it))) of processes whose (name of it as lowercase is contained by (set of (substrings separated by ";" of  value of setting "BESClient_ChildProcess_ExcludeList" of client as trimmed string as lowercase))))))

folder create "{parameter "FolderPath"}"
folder create "{parameter "FolderPath"}\Log"
delete "{parameter "FolderPath"}\ChildProcessTimeout.qna"
move __appendfile "{parameter "FolderPath"}\ChildProcessTimeout.qna"

// The following file will be a .cmd script, executed by the Task Scheduler in SYSTEM context, which executes qna.exe and kills the resulting process list
delete __createfile
createfile until EOF_EOF
@SET WD="{parameter "FolderPath"}"
@For /f "tokens=2-4 delims=/ " %%a in ('date /t') do (set mydate=%%c-%%a-%%b)
@SET LOGFILE=Log\ChildProcessKiller_%mydate%.log
PUSHD %WD%

if not exist "{pathname of storage folder of client}\qna.exe" (@echo %DATE% %TIME% ERROR: Could not locate qna.exe >> %LOGFILE% & exit /B 1)
if not exist "{parameter "FolderPath"}\ChildProcessTimeout.qna" (@echo %DATE% %TIME% ERROR: Could not locate ChildProcessTimeout.qna >> %LOGFILE% & exit /B 1)

GOTO MAIN

:HandlePID
@echo %DATE% %TIME$% Stopping Process %1 >> %LOGFILE%  
@TASKLIST /FI "PID eq %1"  >> %LOGFILE% 2>&1
@TASKKILL /PID %1 /T /F >> %LOGFILE% 2>&1
@exit /B %ERRORLEVEL%

:MAIN
echo %DATE% %TIME% Checking for stuck processes >> %LOGFILE%
@REM We need to call out to another subroutine, because the 'for' syntax doesn't seem to handle directly executing the result
for /F "skip=1 tokens=1,* delims=:" %%i in ('"{pathname of storage folder of client}\qna.exe"  ChildProcessTimeout.qna') do @CALL :HandlePID %%j
EOF_EOF
delete "{parameter "FolderPath"}\ChildProcessKiller.cmd"
move __createfile "{parameter "FolderPath"}\ChildProcessKiller.cmd"

// Create the Scheduled Task to run every 15 minutes
waithidden schtasks.exe /create /RU System /SC MINUTE /MO 15 /TN BESChildProcessKiller /TR "'{parameter "FolderPath"}\ChildProcessKiller.cmd'" /F
waithidden schtasks.exe /run /TN BESChildProcessKiller