John,

  We have had similar needs.  Another group in my company licensed a
product called WinBatch from Wilson Windowware that I am currently looking
at.

I have successfully used Visual Basic to make a utility to run a large
number of commands, a few at a time.  As you indicated, it does a query
process and when a minimal threshold is reached, it issues the next
command.  I had to move many nodes from one server to another, and this
made it a lot easier.

I am always looking out for a good NT Automatic Operations tool.  If I see
one, I will report this to the forum.

Good luck,
  Dan T.

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> From: John Price <jprice AT AMSOUTH DOT COM>
> From: John Price <jprice AT AMSOUTH DOT COM>
> To: 'ADSM: Dist Stor Manager' <ADSM-L AT VM.MARIST DOT EDU>
> Subject: RE: Event Notification
> Date: Tuesday, January 13, 1998 4:06 PM
>
> We'd LOVE some form of paging from the ADSM server! We're currently
> looking at what Tivoli can do for us in that area, but something
> directly from ADSM would be fantastic.
>
>
> The BIG thing on my personal wish list, though:
> I'd like to write something for NT that opens an ADSM *console* and
> watches the messages there, but also opens an administrative client and
> responds to particular messages. For example... I'd like to chain 12
> admin commands together, but have no two of them running at the same
> time. "COMMIT" in a macro just isn't cutting it. So this thing I want
> would send the first command in the admin client session, then watch for
> the completion in the console session and send the next command. (Does
> something like this already exist? I've seen talk of scripts for AIX
> that do this, but the ones I have seen just do Q AC a lot and check for
> completion.)
>
> But paging from ADSM would do for now. ;)
>