# Auto restart gateway timer scripts

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**Category:** Ignition\
**Created:** [August 15, 2025, 7:35pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/auto-restart-gateway-timer-scripts/109833 "2025-08-15T19:35:24Z")\
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I absolutely agree with the general advice in this thread that this is generally inadvisable.

That said, for the sake of it, the `ScriptManager` class is your entry point to the list of running threads in 8.1/your best source of programmatic access.

> [@Creating a tag that returns the number of active scripts on a gateway](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/creating-a-tag-that-returns-the-number-of-active-scripts-on-a-gateway/43181/3):
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> You could run this somewhere on the gateway and write the results to a tag using your mechanism of choice: from com.inductiveautomation.ignition.common.script import ScriptManager list(ScriptManager.executingScripts())

In 8.3 the web API has the corresponding functionality that's available in 8.1 but with the ability to authenticate via API tokens - so you could list running scripts and issue terminate requests via `system.net.httpClient` as another option.

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