Alerts System

[ITTec]

Hi All

 

Currently I have setup bat files that deliver predefined alerts such as "indoor break" to specific computers that SLT are able to run. I do this with the following:

 

msg * /server:COMPUTERNAME /time:600 ALERTTOSEND

 

What I would like to do is allow SLT to write there own alerts instead of having predefined alerts and was wondering if anyone knows a way of doing this?

 

Email is not really an option as staff don't always check and they want the alert to be on top of any other open windows.

 

I know you can buy software for this but don't really want to spend any money to achieve this.

 

Thanks

ITTec

[rrrrr]

Simple vb gui to create and run bat file?

[ITTec]

Simple vb gui to create and run bat file?

 

Thanks rrrrr. I have setup a GUI for it using Visual studio and sorted out a different job on my list through this.

 

Unfortunately my VB scripting is not great and I cant figure out the last part I need.

 

Basically what I want to happen when they press send is:

 

-copy file from location A to B

-replace # within the file to whatever text they have put in the textbox in the GUI

-run the bat file

 

Any help would be appreciated.

[Stuajnht]

Could you not just modify your current batch file to accept a message to be typed in? Something like the following (quickly knocked up with stuff mostly taken from www.ss64.com):

 

@echo off

REM Sends the specified message to the computers listed in computers.txt

:MESSAGE
cls
title Please Enter Message
set /P _message=Please enter message to send: || Set _message=NothingTyped
if "%_message%"=="NothingTyped" goto :MESSAGE

:SENDING
cls
title Sending Message
echo Sending Message: %_message%
echo ===============================================
FOR /F %%G IN (computers.txt) DO (
   echo Sending message to computer: %%G
   msg * /server:%%G /time:600 "%_message%" >nul 2>&1
)
echo ===============================================
title Message Sending Completed
echo Message sent to all defined computers
echo.
echo Press any key to close this window
pause > nul

 

Save it as message.bat, and create a computers.txt file in the same folder, with a name of each computer on one line, e.g.:

 

PC01
PC02
OFFLINEPC
PCnn

 

It'll then work pretty much the same way as it currently does. Remove the >nul 2>&1 from the end of line 18 if you want to see any error messages.

[ITTec]

Just sorted this with a GUI and got rid of the bat files using Visual C#. Thank you both for your inputs.