Joe; Thanks for the reply. Your info looks great, and initial testing is promising. One quirk though is the DOS window stays open after the bat file is run. I redefined things to go through a pif shortcut, which I specified was to close the window on exit, but the window still stays open. Any ideas?
Joe Sepielli wrote: > > Rod, > > Here is a simple method to write WhatsUp Gold status information > to a file. You can then use that file as the input to your > scrolling marquee application. > > - Create a a bat file containing this command: > echo WhatsUp Gold Status at %1 ... Down Devices:%2, Devices with down >services%3>test.out > - Create a Program Notification: > o Program filename=yourfile.bat > o Program arguments=%t %e %A > - Create a Recurring Notification that calls yourfile.bat. > > This exmample uses a few of the following notification variables: > (see the help file for full details) > %A Names of devices with down services All Notifications > %e Down Host Display Names All Notifications > %t Current time (hh:mm:ss) All Notifications > > Joe > > In reply to 20 Nov message from [EMAIL PROTECTED]: > > >I'm thinking about building a screen saver for one of my customers that displays >simple > >scrolling marquee-style text and changes color according to WUG's status. I've >looked > >around for an existing screen saver that could accept some real-time input like this > >and found nothing so it looks like I'm building it. I looked through the registry >for > >WUG, looking for some item there that should indicate current status similar to the >WUG > >taskbar icon - green, yellow or red - but didn't find anything. Does someone know >of a > >way for me to hook into WUG realtime? -- Rod C-- Enterprise Network Consulting Whitehorse, Yukon http://www.enc.yk.net/ http://www.geocities.com/rodcarty/ >> I never married because there was no need. I have three pets at home which answer >the same purpose as a husband. I have a dog which growls every morning, a parrot >which swears all afternoon and a cat that comes home late at night. --Marie Corelli ><< The preceding humor inserted by QuipSig http://www.enc.yk.net/quipsig/ 4,000 quip repertory! Please visit http://www.ipswitch.com/support/mailing-lists.html to be removed from this list. An Archive of this list is available at: http://www.mail-archive.com/whatsup_forum%40list.ipswitch.com/
