I am out of town attending ASP.Net training. I am absolutely blown away at how powerful MS '.Net' is. Yesterday we had an introduction to creation of web services via ASP.Net. Combined with the caching features this is EXTREMELY powerful technology. I have honestly never seen anything so cool. You can write a web service, and connect to it from almost any language or platform, calling methods that can return information or objects, anything. The instructor wrote a web service and a windows client in 5 minutes, and it worked! Great stuff!
Of course the first use that popped into my head was writing some kind of a web service for WUG, that would allow other applications to view server status information and down lists, etc. I understand how to do the .Net part of this type of thing, and I know how to create custom web pages for WUG to get information, but I am wondering if there is a better way that I could look into WUG to get status information? Is there any kind of a windows API? I am guessing that custom written Notifications and Service monitors would only be called when called by WUG, so would probably not be able to provide the kind of 'hook' into WUG that I am looking for... Does anyone know is there are registry entries that can be monitored, or an API that can be utilized, etc, to poll the current status of WUG programatically, rather than by parsing the output of a custom written wug.asp page? Any insights or ideas welcome. Project source will be provided to the group. Thanks, Jim Scheitel 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/
