Acivite Node - IFS10

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I ended up writing a BAT file that could run mvs-svr and dump the contents to a text file. I then call that BAT file from a Schedule Windows Task, and process the text from a custom application. If someone employed advanced PowerScript techniques, that could all be done in one script, I imagine.

In looking at the scheduled task, I see I do not use a BAT file (but I could). The Windows scheduled task directly calls the mws-svr command file and pipes output to a log file at a networked location. The command looks like this:

D:\ifsdev\mws-svr.cmd action=status target=all password={IFSSYS password} > "\\DellFS01\F Drive\Apps\Global\IFS MWS Status\IFSDEV.log"

We are piping to a UNC that is our main file server. An automated application task (written in Visual Foxpro) then parses the file once every hour, looking for strings like “RUNNING” or “STOPPED”. I can provide more details on that if you are interested, but I don’t generally assume FoxPro code is all that useful to most folks (but we have a lot of Foxpro code in play here).

The scheduled task that generates the log needs to be run on the app server itself, as I do not think mws-svr.cmd supports being run remotely (but my admin skills are not all that strong, so I could be wrong about that...).

The key takeaway is that mws-svr can be run as a single command that sends its output to a text file for analysis. If that were not possible, this concept wouldn’t work.

Good luck,

Joe Kaufman