Thanks, don't worry about disclosure - I may just attempt a piece of
perl/blat coding to email a page request to our local paging service.
Oliver Grant
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Xu He [SMTP:xuhe@YAHOO.COM]
> Sent: Thursday, May 20, 1999 12:04 PM
> To: NV-L@UCSBVM.ucsb.edu
> Subject: Re: Event Automation in NetView for WindowNT
>
> Unfortunate, the web-based paging system we wrote was for a client's
> help desk environment, and they own the code. I can't disclose the
> actual code, but the basic concept is fairly simple. Also, after a few
> development cycles, the paging scripts have evolved into a paging
> software, it contains about 5000 lines of code now. I didn't really
> develop the thing, so I only scratches surface the when it comes to the
> whole system.
>
> The system is custom written with TCL (Tool Command Language) scripts
> with ODBC, CGI and HTTP extensions. All three major paging company,
> Mobilecomm/skytel/pagenet have a web interface (i.e.
> http://www.skytel.com/cgi-bin/page.pl ) to their system, so we
> basically wrote scripts to issue the same command to their paging
> system as if we were using a web browser, that done through the TCL CGI
> and HTTP extensions. The guy who wrote the code made it extremely
> modular, and we can tap in very easily. All I had to do is issue a
> command from the event browser, (sendpage PIN MESSAGE). The sendpage
> will call another script on our local webserver and send the page to
> the paging company.
>
> Since trapd.conf allows you to issue commands and scripts, TCL or Perl
> scripts are great for doing stuffs like that. I am kind of new to TCL
> and Perl, but i found it pretty easy if you have any scripting or
> programming background. I used TCL and the network management
> extensions (called Scotty) to rewrote the NVSTATUSTRAP.bat, now it
> doesn't have to resolve all of the names and community string in
> OVSNMP.CONF file before it issues the trap. All of my community
> strings are the same. I hardcoded the community string in the script
> and it can get a response back in a second or two. It's not as fool
> proof as the Netview implementation, but it's about 10 times as faster.
>
> I apologize if my answer on the paging system is kind of vague.
> Unfortunately, I can only disclose certain information.
>
> Xu He
> Network Solutions, Inc.
>
> --- OGrant <OGrant@PEC.COM> wrote:
> > Don't know about anyone else, but I'd be interested
> > in seeing your
> > trap-to-page script - we have a similar setup here.
> >
> > Thank, Oliver Grant
> > PEC
> >
> > > -----Original Message-----
> > > From: Xu He [SMTP:xuhe@YAHOO.COM]
> > > Sent: Thursday, May 20, 1999 8:56 AM
> > > To: NV-L@UCSBVM.ucsb.edu
> > > Subject: Re: Event Automation in NetView for
> > WindowNT
> > >
> > > The is also a NET SEND in NT that will pop up a
> > message the screen of
> > > all Netview Clients. If you have a lot of
> > messeages, it can be
> > > annoying, but for the expecially crucial ones, you
> > can implement use
> > > it.
> > >
> > > the syntax looks like this
> > >
> > > NET SEND /USER "Your Message"
> > >
> > > We have a web based paging system here where I
> > work, and we wrote
> > > command line script that send the page directly to
> > the
> > > Mobilecomm/skytel/pagenet website.
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > > --- James Shanks <James_Shanks@TIVOLI.COM> wrote:
> > > > There is rudimetary paging provided by NetView,
> > > > similar to what is
> > > > available in UNIX, using the nvpage command.
> > See
> > > > the info in
> > > > /usr/ov/doc/pager.readme. NetView for NT also
> > > > provides nvecho.exe,
> > > > similar to ovxecho, and nvplay.exe, which is
> > similar
> > > > to ovxbeep except that
> > > > it plays the .wav file of your choice.
> > > >
> > > > James Shanks
> > > > Tivoli (NetView for UNIX) L3 Support
> > > >
> > > >
> > > >
> > > > Geoffrey Cheng <gcheng@CA.IBM.COM> on 05/19/99
> > > > 09:42:36 PM
> > > >
> > > > Please respond to Discussion of IBM NetView and
> > > > POLYCENTER Manager on
> > > > NetView <NV-L@UCSBVM.UCSB.EDU>
> > > >
> > > > To: NV-L@UCSBVM.UCSB.EDU
> > > > cc: (bcc: James Shanks/Tivoli Systems)
> > > > Subject: Event Automation in NetView for
> > WindowNT
> > > >
> > > >
> > > >
> > > >
> > > >
> > > > Hi,
> > > >
> > > > In Windows NT, can I send e-mail and paging
> > via
> > > > command line?
> > > > I am thinking about using it to configure
> > the
> > > > event automation
> > > > (trapd.conf)
> > > > on NetView for NT as I used to did on
> > NetView
> > > > for AIX.
> > > >
> > > > Secondly, is there any equivalent command
> > of
> > > > ovxbeep in NetView for
> > > > NT?
> > > >
> > > > Thanks.
> > > >
> > > >
> > > >
> > > > Best Regards
> > > >
> > > > Geoffrey Cheng
> > > > e-mail: gcheng@ca.ibm.com
> > > >
> > >
> > >
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