I like to thank Aengus Lawlor for helping me regarding scheduling and
automation of Analog on NT server. After few email communications I finally
managed to make it run.
This was my question: "I want to make analog collect statistic
automatically on specific time."
This is what Aengus has suggested.
>
>You can schedule a job to run using the AT command, and, depending on how
complex your
>requirements are, a simple 3 line batch file may be sufficient.
>
start at the beginning.
Create a batchfile called c:\temp\test1.bat with 1 line:
DIR C:\ > c:\at_test.txt
(it doesn't do anything useful, but by creating a simple file it leaves
a fingerprint that proves that it ran).
Now type
AT 16:57 "c:\temp\test1.bat"
This will schedule your batch file to run at 16:57 (or whatever time you
specify). If you now type just AT on it's own, you should see that the
job is scheduled to run at 16:57 (or whatever time you entered).
Just after 16:57 check to see if c:\at_test.txt was created. Now you
have a job running on schedule. (because you didn't specify /every:, it
only runs once, and is deleted from the schedule - you can practice with
repeated stuff once you get the basics working).
Now that you've got a handle on the AT command, lets create a batch file
that does something useful.
Save the 3 lines I gave as automatic.bat in whatever folder is
appropriate, modifying the directory specs for your circumstances.
When you run Analog, it will look for analog.cfg in the current
directory. When you run something with AT, the current directory is
C:\WINNT\SYSTEM32, so it's a good idea to have a CD command at the start
of the batch file you are scheduling, because Analog won't be able to
find it's LANG files if it looks for them in
C:\WINNT\SYSTEM32\LANG\uk.lng
The second line of the batchfile captures todays date in an environment
variable, and the 3rd line calls analog pointing to a logfile that is
named with todays date (IIS calls its daily log files exYYMMDD.log,
where YYMMDD is the year, month and date for the day the file was
created).
automatic.bat:
CD /D x:\folder\Analog
for /f "tokens=2,3 delims=/ " %%f in ('date /t') do set today=%%f%%g
ANALOG y:\folder\ex00%today%.log
Replace x:\folder\ and y:\folder\ with whatever are the appropriate
locations on your system.
If you create this batch file in c:\temp, for example, then you can run
it and verify that it works - you may have to make some modifications to
analog.cfg to get it to do what you want. Once it works manually, then
you can test it with the AT command, but there's no point scheduling a
batch file that doesn't work manually.
(I haven't touched on the issue of access control - by default under NT,
"everyone" has full access to everywhere on the system, so it doesn't
matter. If your NT machine has been tightened up, scheduled jobs may not
have the rights they need to access specific resources, so a batch file
that runs okay manually may still fail when you try to run it under the
AT command. But you can deal with that if you encounter it).
This is what I did -- I typed the below lines and called automatic.bat
CD /D c:\Analog
for /f "tokens=2,3 delims=/ " %%f in ('date /t') do set today=%%f%%g
ANALOG c:\winnt\system32\logfiles\w3svc1\in*.log
After this file was saved as automatic.bat then I run AT command. First I
checked to see whether automatic.bat command works. I typed C:\> AT 16:55
"c:\automatic.bat" and enter.
When a computer time click at 16:55 analog program is executed and creates
analog output file.
To make Analog on specific time type AT 23:00 /every:m,t,w,th,f,s,su
"c:\automatic.bat"
This should run Analog program at 23:00 every week and creates output file.
Thanks once again to Aengus Lawlor for helping.
-Wangyal
Tsering Wangyal Shawa
Geographic Information Systems Librarian
Digital Map and Geospatial Information Center
Geosciences and Map Library
Guyot Hall, Princeton University
Princeton, NJ 08544
Phone: (609) 258-6804
Fax: (609) 258-1274
www.princeton.edu/~geolib/gis
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