There are spaces in the file that are not part of a text string, the line below is from my servers.txt:
pscdalpcshare10 80 10 true ... If you run your cursor through it you'll see that it looks like this: pscdalpcshare10TABTABSpace80TABSpace10TABtrue The 80 is the port check, and 10 the timeout (as far as I can figure). I haven't tested using just one line and removing one space, but I can tell you that saving the file as a TSV from Excel won't work. I printed out the Excel version and the SA version and laid one on top of the other, shown a bright light through them, and the only difference that I could see were the spaces. On the other point, Warning shouldn't be a problem. If someone is just reconfiguring they probably aren't going to mind being warned. I doubt anyone does massive reconfiguration of checks (unlike timeout intervals, etc). Anyway, these are my suggestions. You certainly aren't any pressure to adopt them, but I figured that you'd value user feedback. -----Original Message----- From: Dirk Bulinckx [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Friday, June 14, 2002 10:18 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: [SA-list] Suggestions The file is only tab delimited. IF there are spaces in it, then it's for example within the body text of the mails that should be send OR within the subject of the mail. Not much to do about that. How can we warn about the 2nd check? It could well be that you no longer need the original check and just are re-configuring. Allowing several checks within one entry is something that we don't want to do. Our idea is that each check can have it's own alerts; and if you add several checks to one entry this is no longer the case. Dirk. -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Sutherland, Bryon Sent: Fri Jun 14 5:13 PM To: '[EMAIL PROTECTED]' Subject: [SA-list] Suggestions I have a couple of suggestions that I think would be simple to implement and make SA into an even better product. 1. If you are attempting to add a second type of check to a single entry it should warn you that you are about to remove the first check. Found that out the hard way. Each type of check for a server (ex: URL, Drive Space, etc) have to be a separate entry. An obvious alternative to the warning would be allowing multiple types of checks for each entry. 2. The servers.txt configuration file looks like it's Tab-delimited, but that's not exactly true. I opened it up in Excel because I wanted to make a specific change to all of my entries, and when I saved it back as a tab-delimited file SA wouldn't work with it. I eventually realized that the file has spaces in strategic places. I would *love* if the file were purely tab (comma, or whatever) delimited so I could make massive changes with Excel instead of opening each entry one-at-a-time in the GUI. Even better would be a line across the top that told us exactly what the fields were so there'd be no guessing. I believe others may have requested something similar. To unsubscribe from a list, send a mail message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] With the following in the body of the message: unsubscribe SAlive To unsubscribe from a list, send a mail message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] With the following in the body of the message: unsubscribe SAlive To unsubscribe from a list, send a mail message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] With the following in the body of the message: unsubscribe SAlive
