Rod,
Stealing Joe's original syntax, the following Visual Basic Script will do
the trick (call it test.vbs or somesuch).
It won't even open a window in the first place.
Set collArgs = Wscript.Arguments
Set fso = CreateObject("Scripting.FileSystemObject")
Set f1 = fso.CreateTextFile("c:\output.txt", True)
f1.WriteLine "WhatsUp Gold Status at " & collArgs(0) & " ... Down Devices: "
& collArgs(1) & " , Devices with down services " & collArgs(2)
f1.Close
Hope that helps,
Andy Young
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Rod Carty [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> Sent: Wednesday, November 21, 2001 12:46 AM
> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: Re: [WhatsUp Forum] Screen saver info
>
> 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?
>
> --
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