At 23:38 17-10-2002, you wrote: [...]
I know there are programs like "Servers Alive" that uses your machine to seek out and see if a particular server is up but since the servers IP #'s change once in a while, this just doesn't work for me. I also like the idea of the each server "reporting in" once a day.If you want a daily report on a server, don't trust the server to deliver it :-)
I've thought about writing a perl script that would reside on my server and have each client access the script each day as a "Scheduled Task" but when I try this approach, the browser window stays open on the server. I'd kinda like to make this transpearent on my customer's server..
At the client's servers, install the LWP module, if it's not available (Active Perl comes with it by default).
Run any commands, capture results, and use a POST to a form on your server, to deliver the results.
Run the perl script in the scheduler, by specifying the path to perl, with first argument the path to the script. This will avoid any registry screw-ups with the '.pl' extension.
If you need help with LWP programming, there's a manual page "LWPCook" that comes with ActivePerl, which is very informative.
With kind regards,
Melvyn Sopacua
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