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A way to Monitor the WAS?

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    #16
    Re: A way to Monitor the WAS?

    Originally posted by jkletrovets View Post
    You can do it without getting an account I believe. For certain carriers - at least Sprint is this way. If you send an email to [email protected] it will send a text message to that phone. 160 Character limit for text message I believe. So you could just use Alpha's email_send() function to send an email to the phone number you want. I believe Verizon works the same where you could just send an email to [email protected] and you would not need an account anywhere.

    Regards,

    Jeff
    Hi Jeff,
    I have not done any email programing with Alpha could you provide a sample script for me to get me started?
    Kind Regards,
    Ray Roosa
    Raylin Micro, LLC.

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      #17
      Re: A way to Monitor the WAS?

      Sure thing Ray

      Below is a function I made where you can just pass the to, from, subject and body. It uses a different function from email_send() because I did not want to bring up any user interface at all. The function below talks directly to the smtp server and just sends the message. Totally transparent to the user. I call it when a certain condition is met that I want to email someone about.

      There are 3 variables defined inside the function that you will need to intialize before calling the function. They are gvsyssmtpserver, gvsyssmtpuser,and gvsyssmtppass. So this is the name and logon info of you smtp server. Most smtp servers have login info these days to prevent email relaying.

      examples (for my provider)

      smtp server: smtp.domainname.com
      user: [email protected]
      password: somepassword

      Code:
      FUNCTION SvcProgSendMail AS C (Mailto AS C, Mailfrom as C, Mailsubj AS C, Mailbody AS C )
dim pm as P
dim ps as P
if (email_smtp_open(ps, gvsyssmtpserver, 25, gvsyssmtpuser, gvsyssmtppass)) then
    pm.to = Mailto
    pm.from = Mailfrom
    pm.subject = Mailsubj
    pm.message = Mailbody
'    pm.attachments = <<%str
'        C:\test.zip
'        c:\dev\test2.zip
'        %str%
 '   pm.html_message = "<HTML><B>This is the message in HTML</B></HTML>"
SvcProgSendMail=email_smtp_send(pm, ps)
end if
email_smtp_close(ps)
END FUNCTION
      Regards,

      Jeff

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        #18
        Re: A way to Monitor the WAS?

        Different carriers may have different rules, Verizon has no Subject line, just the From and Msg.

        So a real simple script would be:


        msg = message
        email_send(technicianNo,"",msg)

        Where message and technicianNo are fields in a dialog.

        I use a variation of this, in simple form:

        msg = category + ":" + domain + ":" + message
        technicianNo = lookup("<ADB_Path>\settings",".t.",technicianNo)
        email_send(technicianNo,"",msg)

        See the attached dialog. It concatenates various fields from the dialog, gets the single technician cell number (me) from a lookup and sends the message. I have a Verizon phone, so the script is written to that. I suppose you would concatenate the cellphone number with the proper email address if you had different phones. [email protected], [email protected], etc.
        Steve Wood
        See my profile on IADN

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          #19
          Re: A way to Monitor the WAS?

          Thank you all for your help :)
          </IMG>
          Kind Regards,
          Ray Roosa
          Raylin Micro, LLC.

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            #20
            Re: A way to Monitor the WAS?

            Originally posted by Steve Wood View Post
            There are known reasons the server halts. One is an improperly defined filter in a report. It just locks up the server until you reboot.

            I have not looked, but you could probably run a log-analyser against the Alpha logs and perform some preventitive statistics.\

            I use AlwaysUp by www.coretechnologies.com to keep the servers up in case of reboot. That progrm also reports to me every 9PM and provides stats. If the server hangs for xx minutes, or consumes 100% CPU, it reboots the Alpha WAS>
            Steve, how did you configure Alwaysup to start/preselect a certain database within Alpha Five version 8? Do you have an practical example or a screenshot of the startup parameters?

            Kind regards, Brendo!
            Ing./bict Brendo Bongers
            Software Engineer
            http://www.brendobongers.nl

            "There's more than one way to skin a cat."

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              #21
              Re: A way to Monitor the WAS?

              Use Alpha's built in Create Shortcut feature to add a desktop short cut. Then select this shortcut as your program in AlwaysUp. I have not tried that, but it should work. Also, the owner of AlwaysUp is very responsive to support requests. If you can't get it to work, I will try some tests.
              Steve Wood
              See my profile on IADN

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                #22
                Re: A way to Monitor the WAS?

                Originally posted by Steve Wood View Post
                Use Alpha's built in Create Shortcut feature to add a desktop short cut. Then select this shortcut as your program in AlwaysUp. I have not tried that, but it should work. Also, the owner of AlwaysUp is very responsive to support requests. If you can't get it to work, I will try some tests.
                Steve, I generated succesfully a shortcut with Alpha, but it still doesn't work with Alwaysup:( Could you do some tests please?
                Ing./bict Brendo Bongers
                Software Engineer
                http://www.brendobongers.nl

                "There's more than one way to skin a cat."

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                  #23
                  Re: A way to Monitor the WAS?

                  I have to wait for a new license to arrive to put it on a machine that has A5 (non WAS) on it. Should be later today.
                  Steve Wood
                  See my profile on IADN

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                    #24
                    Re: A way to Monitor the WAS?

                    It worked just fine. Here is what I have in various fields, your's would be different of course. This is for runtime, but would work the same for professional version:

                    Program: C:\Program Files\A5V7 Runtime\alpha5.exe

                    Arguments: e:\public\databases\atswin\Ats5.Adb -INCLUDE=e:\public\databases\atswin\Ats5.startup

                    Start In: e:\public\databases\atswin
                    Steve Wood
                    See my profile on IADN

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                      #25
                      Re: A way to Monitor the WAS?

                      Thanks Steve! this works!
                      Still we got a problem on a 2003 server, that I've to investigate futher.

                      Regards, Brendo
                      Ing./bict Brendo Bongers
                      Software Engineer
                      http://www.brendobongers.nl

                      "There's more than one way to skin a cat."

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