I am receiving commands from a client in TIdCmdTCPServer and this works great. Now I want to send events to the client, but I cannot seem to find any place to do this. I know how to do it in TIdTCPServer, but like the clean code its Cmd equivalent gives me. How/where do I inject a text for the client?
What I've tried so far is look for a receiver thread from where I can send commands (the equivalent of TIdCmdServer's Execute thread), or something like a SendCmd, but have not found anything. Starting to wonder if this is even possible?
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I have a something that is sending an SNMP set command to my server. I can see the packet in wireshark, and I know that I'm getting the packet. Once I get this packet I need to decode it and do an operation (using a script). I can't believe I am the first person that needs to do this, but have googled for hours and found no one else in this use case. I've seen utilities that allow me to use a get snmp, but as the set doesn't actually set anything on my server, there is no way to get it. It doesn't seem traps are helpful as that seems to find the message, as its not labeled a trap. Is there a way to convert the set to a trap once my server gets it, or is there a better method. My server is windows, but if I have to create a linux VM to make this easier I'm all ears. As of now I'm thinking powershell, but if there is an easy way in go, c#, etc I would totally do it.
I am attempting to get a SNMP SET to and use that as a trigger for running a script.
You are 100% correct in that you are not the first person to ask this question. The answer depends on which SNMP agent you have deployed. Many people have had success with Net SNMP and if you want to invoke a shell script from the SNMP agent, see this tutorial. Good luck with your project.
I ended up using pythons pysnmp to build an agent that would recieve the set/get requests. I had to compile my own MIBs for the PDU I was emulating, but got the job done. I also looked into Net SNMP, but I'm more familiar with python and found many helpful examples and good documentation.
I would like to flatten my use case, but at the moment I have two scripts, one that is the agent using pysnmp and one that will do a get request to see what the value is and set off a ssh script. I wish I could hook into the snmp set function, like when the var is written, but for now I have working setup. If anyone wants me to post my code I can.
Copied a lot of code from the second example here:
https://pysnmp.readthedocs.io/en/latest/examples/v3arch/asyncore/agent/cmdrsp/agent-side-mib-implementations.html
Learned about MIB compiling and used the mbidump.py tool. Looks like if you don't provide the proper file the old host server might be compromised and it downloads a file automatically...so be careful.
I'm trying to implement a message sending on my platform.sh server. The idea would be to use the existing hooks:deploy: hook in the configuration file to make a bash curl call that would send a message to an api "Deploy completed".
I use a curl snippet that works like a charm on my local machine, though the message is never sent from the server on a new deploy.
I know that the correct interpreter is bash, since the existing example in platform.sh docs is using bash code. Though, it's indicated in the docs that the disk is in read-only mode during this hook, would that be the cause of the issue?
Thanks a lot!
~SPJ
For posterity: also note that this may already exist by default in Platform.sh you can use the webhook integration to get notified of any activity.
$ platform integration:add --type=webhook --url=A-URL-THAT-CAN-RECEIVE-THE-POSTED-JSON
Details on https://docs.platform.sh/administration/integrations/webhooks.html
Hmm, I thought it was irrelevant, but French text with accents in the API parameters was causing the issue...
Hope this will help others.
~SPJ
I have a TIdCmdTCPClient which receives commands teminated in LF from a tcp server (written in C) into commandhandlers and accordingly updates a UI using TIdNotify. All is fine if it was not that somtimes I need to talk to the server in the traditional way using writeln and readln. If I try to do it there are problems such as the UI freezes, subsequent commands arrive later etc.
IS there a specific way to make work the pair writeln-readln just fine with TIdCmdTCPClient as they work with TIdTCPClient?
Please provide more informmation about the protocol you are implementing. You can certainly issue additional WriteLn() and ReadLn() calls while you are inside of a command handler event, as long as that is what the server is expecting you to do. But if you need to call ReadLn() out-of-band then you are going to conflict with TIdCmdTCPClient's internal reading.
I've spent hours trying to figure out the answer to this and just continue to come up empty handed. I've setup a XMPP server through OpenFire that is fully functional. My goal with creating the server was placing an alert system for when an event is completed on my server. For example when one of my renders is finished rendering (takes hours, sometimes days), it has the option of running a command when it's finished. This command would then run a .bat file telling a theoretical program to send a message via the broadcast plugin in OpenFire to all parties involved in the render. So it needs to be able to receive parameters such as %N for name of the render and %L for the label of it.
I've located two programs that do exactly what I'm looking to do but one does not work and from the sounds of the comments may have never worked and the second one is seemingly LINUX only. The render server is Windows as is the OpenFire server so naturally it would not work. Here are the links though so you can get an idea.
http://thwack.solarwinds.com/media/40/orion-npm-content/general/136769/xmpp-command-line-client/
http://manpages.ubuntu.com/manpages/jaunty/man1/sendxmpp.1.html
Basically the command I want to push is identical to that of the first link.
xmppalert.exe -m "%N is complete." %L#broadcast.myserver
This would broadcast to everyone in the labels Group that the named render is complete.
If anyone has any idea how to get either of the above links working, know of another way or simply have a better idea on how to accomplish what I'm trying to do please let me know. This is something that has been eating at me for 2 days now.
Thanks.
you can take a look at PoshXMPP which allows you to use XMPP from the Powershell.
http://poshxmpp.codeplex.com/
Alex
I've got a service that acts as a watchdog for several apps/servers. There are no user sessions on this machine. I'd like the watchdog to be capable of beeping on the internal speaker should something go wrong (that'd be my queue to go fix whatever it's complaining about)
when I try the Beep() API on Windows nothing happens - I suspect the problem is that the services session isnt permitted to make noises?
can I make this work? any other ideas for how to make the service alert me?
-CG
Call CreateFile on \device\beep, then send down IOCTL_BEEP_SET (see http://www.koders.com/c/fidFEC3527B9D951559D62722A9C0C603863106CA9B.aspx for details)
It may work if you allow it to interact with the desktop (an option configurable somewhere, I can't remember where).
But personally, I'd have it email me.
Though maybe you could have it use the task scheduling API to schedule a task for yourself, so next time you log on you can see it.
I don't know; you've got a few options. I'd avoid beeping though.
Try sending beep char "\a" to console. Not sure if it will work.
Beeping doesn't seem like a good idea - it might end up driving everyone mad....
I'd also agree about the "interact with desktop" option and you set this in the services parameters see A Windows Service without a template
I'd recommend creating a simple client application that polls that server to query for any problems and returns a set of status messages. Then an appropriate UI would be raised (e.g. balloon on the tray), an email sent, etc. containing any warning or failure messages.
This way you also know that the watchdog itself is running and has network connectivity - if the watchdog dies and/or machine locks up you wouldn't otherwise know.
It also avoids being thrown out of a window when the machine starts beeping continuously just after you go to lunch. [+1 to #mikej] :-)
The poll period should be around half (see Nyquist sampling rate) your minimum required response time.