try viewing it an editor that will show you the whitespace characters
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Dirk Bulinckx [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> Sent: Friday, June 14, 2002 2:25 PM
> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: RE: [SA-list] Suggestions
>
>
> Those are TABs I can assure you.
>
>
> Dirk.
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On
> Behalf Of Sutherland, Bryon
> Sent: Fri Jun 14 5:32 PM
> To: '[EMAIL PROTECTED]'
> Subject: RE: [SA-list] Suggestions
>
>
> There are spaces in the file that are not part of a text
> string, the line
> below is from my servers.txt:
>
> pscdalpcshare10 80 10 true ...
>
> If you run your cursor through it you'll see that it looks like this:
>
> pscdalpcshare10TABTABSpace80TABSpace10TABtrue
>
> The 80 is the port check, and 10 the timeout (as far as I can
> figure). I
> haven't tested using just one line and removing one space,
> but I can tell
> you that saving the file as a TSV from Excel won't work. I
> printed out the
> Excel version and the SA version and laid one on top of the
> other, shown a
> bright light through them, and the only difference that I
> could see were the
> spaces.
>
>
> On the other point, Warning shouldn't be a problem. If
> someone is just
> reconfiguring they probably aren't going to mind being
> warned. I doubt
> anyone does massive reconfiguration of checks (unlike timeout
> intervals,
> etc).
>
> Anyway, these are my suggestions. You certainly aren't any
> pressure to
> adopt them, but I figured that you'd value user feedback.
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Dirk Bulinckx [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> Sent: Friday, June 14, 2002 10:18 AM
> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: RE: [SA-list] Suggestions
>
>
> The file is only tab delimited. IF there are spaces in it,
> then it's for
> example within the body text of the mails that should be send
> OR within the
> subject of the mail. Not much to do about that.
>
> How can we warn about the 2nd check? It could well be that
> you no longer
> need the original check and just are re-configuring. Allowing
> several checks
> within one entry is something that we don't want to do. Our
> idea is that
> each check can have it's own alerts; and if you add several
> checks to one
> entry this is no longer the case.
>
>
>
> Dirk.
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On
> Behalf Of Sutherland, Bryon
> Sent: Fri Jun 14 5:13 PM
> To: '[EMAIL PROTECTED]'
> Subject: [SA-list] Suggestions
>
>
> I have a couple of suggestions that I think would be simple
> to implement and
> make SA into an even better product.
>
> 1. If you are attempting to add a second type of check to a
> single entry it
> should warn you that you are about to remove the first check.
> Found that
> out the hard way. Each type of check for a server (ex: URL,
> Drive Space,
> etc) have to be a separate entry.
>
> An obvious alternative to the warning would be allowing
> multiple types of
> checks for each entry.
>
> 2. The servers.txt configuration file looks like it's
> Tab-delimited, but
> that's not exactly true. I opened it up in Excel because I
> wanted to make a
> specific change to all of my entries, and when I saved it back as a
> tab-delimited file SA wouldn't work with it. I eventually
> realized that the
> file has spaces in strategic places. I would *love* if the
> file were purely
> tab (comma, or whatever) delimited so I could make massive
> changes with
> Excel instead of opening each entry one-at-a-time in the GUI.
> Even better
> would be a line across the top that told us exactly what the
> fields were so
> there'd be no guessing. I believe others may have requested something
> similar.
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