> Has anyone written or know of a program that will run on AIX and send
> messages to a MS Windows client via a pop up window? This command would
> be very similar to the "message" command on Novell or "Write" command in
> unix.
>
> What I am looking to do is write some shell scripts that will monitor the
> Adsm server for certain things - like volume mount requests. When a
> request has been found, I want the script to send me a message to my
> Windows 95 station via a pop up window informing me that a request is
> out-standing.

> Can someone help me out here? Any suggestions? Anyone else looking for
> something similar?

You could start a console session on your AIX server and direct the output
to something that can parse for a mount request.  When a mount request
is received, send mail or perform some other function.

We filter our console session output through a perl script which allows us
to ring a bell in our operations center to alert the ops that a mount is
pending, we also 'pretty up' the output by setting graphic rendition in
an aixterm window.  IBM makes things easy to parse with the 8 character
message number.

Bob Booth