RE: [WhatsUp Forum] Auto Cycle Through Maps...

[Scheitel, James]

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If all the things you want to display are web based, you should also be able to accomplish this with an html frame and a bit of _javascript_... The _javascript_ would have a wait cycle and would change the target of the frame in a loop.  The same technology is utilized for banner ad's on most web sites, the banners are rotated automatically, you might look for a banner ad script and modify it to suit your needs. (Just make the banner size bigger (full page) and put links to your web pages in instead of ads.)   Hint: you can bypass the WUG login screen by passing the username and password in the url headers, for example: username:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/map.asp?map=xxx   For something similar we setup bogus username and password as long (random) strings of letters and numbers and gave the account as few privileges as we could, something like: Username: AFDS902343LKJ645 Password: 908ASD23OIU234 So the url then looks something like:    AFDS902343LKJ645:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/map.asp?map=xxx   This gives us the ability to hard code it without having a really obvious username and password that someone would recognize in an address bar if they saw it.   Hope that helps...   Jim Scheitel Knife River Corporation   -----Original Message----- From: Anderson, Eric E. [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, February 28, 2003 10:43 AM To: '[EMAIL PROTECTED]' Subject: RE: [WhatsUp Forum] Auto Cycle Through Maps...   I think you'll need to use macro software to do it for you to record keystrokes and do what you want.  Checkout AutoIt http://www.hiddensoft.com/autoit.  I use it for various macro scripts and love it.  Plus you can't beat a free product.     Eric E. Anderson I.S. Manager, Information & Space Sector Veridian Dayton Help Desk (937) 476-2555 or [EMAIL PROTECTED] pager: http://bit-byte.com/pageme v (937) 476-2611 (direct) f (937) 476-2900 -----Original Message----- From: Tom Cozzi [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, February 28, 2003 11:35 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [WhatsUp Forum] Auto Cycle Through Maps... I want to setup our big-screen WhatsUp monitor to cycle through different maps on the WhatsUp Gold server(s). Additionally, I want the monitor to pull different web-based map pages from different servers. For example, the browser would display a map of the United States for 20 seconds, then display a different local map for 20 seconds, and so on. After displaying 4 or 5 maps, the cycle would start all over again. Is anybody doing anything like this. I know you can do this with KVM switches, but I don't want to do this with hardware. In that case, the monitor would need to be connected to the servers. I want to be able to do this from any PCs browser.   thanx, tom...