Windows Subsystem for Linux (WSL) is a software component allowing to run Linux applications directly on Windows 10 and Windows Server 2019 starting from August 2016. There are several software projects aimed at running/porting certain GNU/Linux applications to Windows, most known being Cygwin and Minfw-w64.

Scripting languages (VBScript, Python, PowerShell etc) are both flexible and convenient to create small scripts, to handle a simple monitoring task (such as poll a device for data or execute custom alert). Python has an advantage of being general purpose cross-platform scripting language for years, with many well-known scripts either already available on the Net, or quick to compose.