Hi Jeff, This is an example of using omgetimp. I am actually reading 25 points, but paired the script down for the email. Separate each C:B.P with one space. I ftp the resulting data file over to a computer hosting a web server, and use a perl script to create a web page from the data file. The timestamp is included so the web user knows when the data was last updated. This is getting live data from blocks, not from the historian. To get data from my historian (legacy Informix) I use the report writer to create the data file and then ftp it to the web server. Steve Murray Asarco ********** content of script file scheduled in cron ******************************* #!/bin/sh # Shell script to load values for Plant Overview web page # Thirty points per omgetimp permitted # awk command will read in the third field from the omgetimp and write them to the # file dataX.tmp TIMESTAMP=`date '+ %m/%d/%y %H:%M:%S'` echo $TIMESTAMP >/var/steve/webdata/smdata3.tmp # Twenty-five this omget /opt/fox/bin/tools/omgetimp FIC69:FIC69.MEAS G16:ST.RO0001|awk '{print $3}' >>/var/steve/webdata/smdata3.tmp ************************************ -----Original Message----- From: Jeff Hurt [mailto:hurtman@xxxxxxxxxxxx] Sent: Wednesday, May 09, 2007 6:44 PM To: foxboro@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Subject: Re: [foxboro] Writing point values to an external database Kevin, Thanks for the advice of using omgetimp. I'm not familiar with this command. From googling it, it looks like it runs from the command line? Any places you can point me to for more information. Thanks, Jeff H. Indeck-Energy * This e-mail and any files transmitted with it are the property of ASARCO LLC and/or its affiliates, are confidential, and are intended solely for the use of the individual or entity to whom this e-mail is addressed. If you are not a named recipient or otherwise have reason to believe that you have received this message in error, please notify the sender and delete this message immediately from your computer. Any other use, retention, dissemination forwarding, printing or copying of this e-mail is strictly prohibited. Although this email and any attachments are believed to be free of any virus or other defect that might affect any computer system into which it is received, and opened, it is the responsibility of the recipient to ensure that it is virus free and no responsibility is accepted by ASARCO LLC and/or its affiliates for any loss or damage arising in any way from its use This e-mail has been scanned and cleared by MailMarshal www.marshal.com * _______________________________________________________________________ This mailing list is neither sponsored nor endorsed by Invensys Process Systems (formerly The Foxboro Company). Use the info you obtain here at your own risks. Read http://www.thecassandraproject.org/disclaimer.html foxboro mailing list: //www.freelists.org/list/foxboro to subscribe: mailto:foxboro-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx?subject=join to unsubscribe: mailto:foxboro-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx?subject=leave