Ookkkay.

Basicly its a slow day here today and im looking at making my job just that little bit simpler while I can :)

Basicly we have three websites here at work, all three basicly can show jobs in a queue.

Inprogress, failed, completed etc. We have to continually load up the 3 pages to check for failed jobs, which, I know, isnt a big deal.

What would be really nice is if we had some sort of RSS feed or alert system for the failed jobs.

Now, the problem I am facing, is that it can only be done from a workstation, and nothing can go on to the actual server. My boss is cool with it, but clearly no one wants experimental software on a system that is the heart of our company :)

Anyone have any ideas, advice or links they could share to help me get started?

Any help would be appreciated.

Thanks!

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last edited by d0mino at 10:06:41 16/Aug/05

Dude, please just leave my thread alone and stop posting stupid s*** in it.

Doode RSS is basically and XML file containing tags. It just lives on the Server - no additional software needed to serve the RSS Feed just your WWW Server. Then all you have to do is load your favorite RSS and add the URL to that XML file, that's it.

Here's the XML spec for RSS feed

Or just google

Problem is, is that I want to capture without touching the server.

Is that even possible?

Problem is, is that I want to capture without touching the server.

Is that even possible?

What do you mean "capture without touching the server"? I'm confused. You said that you've got:

"all three basicly can show jobs in a queue.

Inprogress, failed, completed etc. We have to continually load up the 3 pages to check for failed jobs, which, I know, isnt a big deal. "

So assuming that you have some sort of scripts in the cron job that automajically generating these stats already, all you'd have to do is that turn these "normal" HTML pages into XML with RSS spec and that'd be all you need to do. You don't need to install additional scripting language or anything like that. If you're on Windows platform, use Batch file or VBScript or Windows Scripting Host, if you're on *nix it's even easier.

Or am I misunderstood what you're trying to do here?

Now, the problem I am facing, is that it can only be done from a workstation, and nothing can go on to the actual server. My boss is cool with it, but clearly no one wants experimental software on a system that is the heart of our company :)

Ok just reread your original post again. If you don't have access to your Server then, no you can't do this. To turn the HTML pages into RSS feeds you will need access to the server, change the HTML format to correct RSS format for the output.

But what you're doing to the server isn't really a big deal from where I stand, since your server is already serving Web Pages containing the Stats. All you'd have to do is add another one to server RSS instead. But then again I'm making a huge assumption that you have access to your server and modify stuff etc.

If you can't then the answer is no you can't do it. The work around would be if you're using Firefox just add all 3 URLs into the same Link folder. And then all you have to do to load all 3 URLs into 3 Tabs, is just right click on the folder and go "Open in Tabs"- then BAM all 3 loaded. Had get the Firefox extension to auto-refresh the page and you're set.