Rerun scripts 1

[craigdthomas1]

Hello All,

I am very new at this ... so please forgive me if this is redundant. I recently Inherited a few scripts to log(telnet) into our machine and poll data.

My problem is that these scripts only run once and if not initiated within a 15 - 20 minute ... the machine logs out.
(I have seen the schedule, but it only takes 1 hour intervals)

Ideally ... I would like to run the script to log into the machine and poll the data, but once logged in ... I would like to automatically run a command (Dumpdata) every 5 to 10 minutes.

By running this command it would prevent the machine from timing out and keep my screen with fresh data.

I hope this was not too confusing, but any help would be greatly apprecaited

regards,
craig

 

[knob]

You could use the pause command inside a while loop to give yourself the necessary delay between execution. Here is an example:

proc main
while 1
;place code to run here
pause 300
endwhile
endproc

This will run the code you want every 5 minutes (the pause 300 waits 300 seconds before continuing). If you have a compiled script already to go, you could use the execute command to launch that script, then control would return to the calling script when done. Five minutes later, that script would be called again and so on.


aspect@aspectscripting.com

http://www.aspectscripting.com

 

[craigdthomas1]

Thanks knob!!!
excellent ...this works just fine!!!
Craig