[THIN] Re: message notifier
- From: "Jon Spriggs" <jon.spriggs@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: thin@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Tue, 28 Mar 2006 14:55:47 +0100
No probs. OK, how about another suggestion?
Make use of some form of Jabber for all staff. Create a "bot" which
can message all staff. This would also encourage inter-office
communications via instant messaging rather than e-mail for "quick"
messages, and would reduce external communications about corporate
data over MSN messenger or the sort.
By adding the Jabber Client to the build of all workstations, and
making it start up on startup, then inform all users that server-down
notifications will always be broadcast over Jabber should encourage
staff to use it, meaning you'll only need to reboot a server once with
a Jabber Broadcast, and suddenly all your staff will keep it open! :)
There are Jabber Daemons for Windows and Linux, and Jabber clients for
just about every platform under the sun!
Regards,
Jon "The Nice Guy" Spriggs
On 3/28/06, IT Support <it@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Hello,
> We did that before...But...
>
> Have you ever tried to access a console window of a server that hasn't
> been rebooted for a while? You have to ok all those silly messages
> before you can start your work...
>
> Plus the fact that different sites get the same message i.e. people
> abroad get notifications that the "tea lady is outside the building" -
> not very nice for them I assure you!!!
>
> Its why we went down the route of selectively messaging people in the
> first place...
>
> Thanks anyway =)
>
>
> Regards
>
> Jaime
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: thin-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:thin-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On
> Behalf Of Jon Spriggs
> Sent: 28 March 2006 14:34
> To: thin@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Subject: [THIN] Re: message notifier
>
> How about netsending the whole domain?
>
> Regards,
>
> Jon
>
> On 3/28/06, IT Support <it@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> >
> >
> >
> > Greetings list
> >
> >
> >
> > We currently employ a VBS script to notify users about mundane stuff
> like
> > Server Reboots and sandwich rounds (see below) but have noticed that
> this
> > can spike CPU and memory usage with the trillions of net sends that
> the
> > script sends out....
> >
> >
> >
> > Has anyone else found a more efficient way to net send users?
> >
> >
> >
> > Please feel free to tear apart the script and pick holes =)
> >
> >
> >
> > -------------------------- Script Below ----------------------------
> >
> > sGroupName = "All Internal Users"
> >
> > sDomain = "CORPORATE DOMAIN NAME"
> >
> > sMessage = "Server will be rebooted in 5 mins, please save your work
> and log
> > out"
> >
> > bForce = False
> >
> > On Error Resume Next
> >
> > Err.Clear
> >
> > Set oGroup = GetObject("WinNT://" & sDomain _
> >
> > & "/" & sGroupName & ",group")
> >
> > If Err.Number <> 0 Then
> >
> > Err.Clear
> >
> > Wscript.Echo "Unable to find group " & sGroupName
> >
> > Wscript.Quit(1)
> >
> > End If
> >
> > On Error GoTo 0
> >
> > Set oShell = CreateObject("Wscript.Shell")
> >
> > nCount = 0
> >
> > nError = 0
> >
> > For Each oMember In oGroup.Members
> >
> > nRC = oShell.Run("command /c net send "& oMember.Name & " " &
> sMessage, 0,
> > bForce)
> >
> > If nRC = 0 Then
> >
> > nCount = nCount + 1
> >
> > Else
> >
> > nError = nError + 1
> >
> > Wscript.Echo "Message NOT sent to " & oMember.Name _
> >
> > & ", error code " & nRC
> >
> > End If
> >
> > Next
> >
> >
> ------------------------------------------------------------------------
> --
> >
> >
> >
> > Regards,
> >
> > Jaime
> >
> >
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