Jason, I'm not from Ipswitch. If you can produce the script, placing a wait command between each write would probably ensure safety.
One thing I would like to mention from my experience with performing bulk operations with the asp pages: Each time you change context, the page will have to load or reload before it will affect What's up. What I mean is: You cannot simply write a section of code, for example, to save a map and simply copy that section over and over with (for example) several hard-coded context changes within asp page, or via iterations. It appears you can only change context one time on per load per type of context. So for repeated context changes, I produce the custom asp page from the script with the proper tag syntax and arguments. Each time the script iterates, it overwrites the previous page with the appropriate context arguments and reads the page via the url of the page without opening a browser. By reading the custom page via its url it has the effect of opening browser without waiting for a browser to navigate with each iteration. Also, with my script since I am not opening a browser, I bypass the http://username:[EMAIL PROTECTED] check in Internet Explorer. -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Jason Dennis Sent: Friday, October 15, 2004 10:02 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [WhatsUp Forum] Script to write maps to disk We have a setup at our firm using two instances of Whatsup that are syncronized with each other using a Perl script every few days. There is a Primary (called Data Center A) and a Secondary (called Data Center B). Both sites are hot and give us data on performance and availability from these two geographically diverse Data Centers. There are about 10-15 engineers who regularly add/remove/change settings, alerts, services, etc. on the A site and these changes on all maps get pushed to the B site. However sometimes engineers can forget to "write map to disk" and if the service on A fails for whatever reason, the changes are lost on maps not synchronized to disk. Does someone from Ipswitch have any thoughts on the proper way to run an .asp script which iterates through the maps and writes each to disk. This would essentially be run via cron once a night. We could easily code up such a page, but I am worred that there might be some corruption if we tried doing all at once. Should we introduce a Jscript wait command between writes? Are there any concerns with writing 30-40 maps to disk with a script? Thanks in advance for the insight. -Jason 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/ 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/
