Re: [foxboro] Sending email from a windows AW
- From: Ricardo Abech <abech@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: foxboro@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Mon, 8 Nov 2010 16:04:06 -0200
Hi David,
If the AW has SMTP connection to their email server, this is my suggestion:
- Create the Alarm events and then use a PERL script to monitor the ALMHIST
file (it will run as a daemon - on every second or 2 seconds or whatever speed
you want).
- Once it locates the alarm in the ALMHIST, it will trigger the email (all
inside perl). You will need some kind of pointer in the file to avoid looking
at events processed in the past run (nothing too hard).
- You can build a setup.txt file that contains all alarms that should be
monitored.
P.S: you can replace the almhist file with the omget calls (you should have
replaced at this point your omget with omgetimp. If not, use omgetimp), and
then monitor the events. This method will probably cause a litle more traffic,
but it will depend on how many situations you want to monitor and how fast. The
advantage is that you do not need to create alarms. Other problem is that if
you have fast triggering of the events, if you do not run fast enough (0.5 sec)
you may miss some of them.
I hope that helps. Of course, that is what I would do, since my knowledge of
Shell Scripting is really not good (this is why I use PERL).
I can send you off-list some examples of PERL code to send emails using SMTP
calls (you can even compile the PERL script, so no need to install perl on the
AW if does not have it, or does not have the proper packages - like I do with
Foxray).
Best regards,
Ricardo P. Abech
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LimeWare Company, Inc.
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On Nov 8, 2010, at 3:50 PM, Johnson, David wrote:
Hello all,
I have a need to monitor a few Foxboro points and send an email when a certain
situation occurs. I've sent mail from Sun boxes in the past, which is easy
with command line tools. I am not familiar with this on windows, put assume
that it exists.
I have options....
They have Foxray ...
1.. I could build an alarm and have Foxray monitor this and send an email when
the alarm comes in. The only problem there is the some delay on the data
collection (5 or 10 minutes depending on fast collect scheduling) and they want
a fairly immediate indication that a problem is occurring.
2.. I could write a piece of sequence code to kick off an external command to
send an email.
3.. I could write a simple looping shell script that uses omgetimp and waits
until the event occurs and then send an email.
4.. Foxpage probably does this and a lot more.
5.. There might be a better way of doing this that I haven't thought of.
So does anyone have any advice before I start dusting off some old Unix shell
scripts?
Thanks,
David
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