I actually did something like this in the past. Kind of a kludge, but it
worked. Here is what we did:
1. Installed RSH daemon on the NT workstation.
2. For the appropriate trap, run a script that ends up executing the command
via rsh.
The shell script we had for the action got the IP address from the 'who'
list (since we had different traps sent to different people). In our case
we actually executed a program that played a wav file on the administrator's
computer (it was for a demo and all the clients thought it was cool). In
theory, it could be used to send a popup message to the NT (or any other
desktop for that matter) desktop.
It was a couple of years ago and we did it primarily for a showy demo.
Patrick
-----Original Message-----
From: Discussion of IBM NetView and POLYCENTER Manager on NetView
[mailto:NV-L@UCSBVM.ucsb.edu] On Behalf Of Gord Michaels
Sent: Wednesday, January 19, 2000 2:52 PM
To: NV-L@UCSBVM.ucsb.edu
Subject: Sending popup (ovxecho) to NT machines...
Hello All.
Could someone tell me if this is possible??
I have my Netview 5.1.1 Server (on AIX 4.2.1) sending popups (ovxecho's) to
the display (console).
However, the Server, and thus the console, are physically located in the
Computer room.
Is there any way that I can also direct this popup to a NT workstation.
Thus, if I am at my desk, I could be notifified?
Has anyone ever done anything like this??
Presently, in my script that calls ovxecho I have the following variable
set: SCREEN="10.0.6.50:0" which is the IP address of the Netview Server.
Ideally, I would want to replace this with the IP address of my NT machine.
Any help appreciated.
Sincerely,
Gord Michaels.
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