ADSM-L

Re: Real-time monitoring

1999-12-28 05:15:47
Subject: Re: Real-time monitoring
From: Peter Bjoern <pebj AT SDC DOT DK>
Date: Tue, 28 Dec 1999 11:15:47 +0100
If you have the possibility of running a webserver on your ADSM server
machine (or somewhere else),
you can have a web-page open in a browser-equipped PC in the tape library.
That webpage will be a dynamically updated page (say every 60 seconds or
whatever) which will call
a CGI script that querries the ADSM server for any pending tapemounts and
possible other information too.
The CGI script can then build the html to be displayed to the tape people,
including all the colors, effects,
sounds and other stuff. Your imagination (and your time) is the limit.
Once you have the system up and running, you'll find that you can use the
concept to display other things
such as output from periodically generated SQL querries etc.
The main thing is that you get the graphics display functions almost free
( html) and can easily code new features
and funtions in CGI scripts (could be done in perl) ,once you have passed
the initial leaning curve in html and CGI.
I use a similar system for other purposes.

Regards

Peter
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