APM 2 (or later) Is it possible to read the contents of a text file

FormerMember

Using APM, is it possible to read the contents of a text file that contains 1 number and generate an alert if that number exceeds a value?

For instance, I have some scripts which extract some data out of our VPN concentrator and stores the count in a text file. I would LOVE to have either APM or UnDP to be able to read the contents of that file and generate an alert if the value is higher than say, 10.

Thoughts? Ideas?

josh.clark

I'm feeling generous today.... don't get use to it

Here's a quick script to do what you asked for.  I'll let you read the documentation about how to create a Windows Script Monitor.  This script has the filename hard coded.  You might want to change this to an argument to the script.  That way you could specify the target server as the variable ${IP}.  This way it would work with multiple servers.

Here's the script:

'--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------

Option Explicit

const targetfile = "\\serverName\SharName\testfile.txt"
const ForReading = 1

Dim fso, file, firstLine
Set fso = Wscript.CreateObject( "Scripting.FileSystemObject" )

if (Not fso.FileExists(targetfile)) then
    WScript.Echo("Message: File not found: " & targetFile)
    WScript.Echo("Statistic: 0")
    WScript.Quit(1)
end if

Set file = fso.OpenTextFile(targetfile, ForReading)
firstLine = file.ReadLine

WScript.Echo("Message: The first line: " & firstLine )
WScript.Echo("Statistic: " & firstLine)