NetDecision Script Studio
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NetDecision Script Studio is a complete script management tool that provides the user with convenient development environment. The script language incorporates network management related functions as well as other utilities. The user can organize scripts in folders based on some criteria. There is a powerful schedule management that allows the user to execute the script at the specified time. It is allowed to execute multiple scripts simultaneously.
Features
- Powerful script development environment.
- Flexible scheduling.
- Syntax highlighting script editor.
- GUI controlled script execution.
- Microsoft Outlook like GUI.
- Powerful script language
NetDecision Script Language is a programming language that allows you to create robust, intelligent agents to manage your network using protocols such as SNMP and ICMP.
It is also possible to parse and create HTML and XML data files using NetDecision Script Language, send E-Mails to notify a technicians about system failure, query database, create graphical reports (charts).
The syntax of the language is very simple, but it allows the user to solve complex tasks. The language has all basic features like loops, condition statements, user-defined functions, etc.
Features
- Basic data types (string, integer, double).
- Multidimensional arrays.
- SNMP data types.
- XML data type.
- Conditional execution ("if" statements).
- Loops ("while", "for", "foreach" statements).
- Functions (including recursive functions).
- Local and global variable scope.
- Operators.
- Simple to extend.
- SNMP functions.
- String processing functions (including regex).
- XML processing functions.
- DB functions.
- Mathematical routines.
- Graphical Reports (SVG).
- File IO functions.
- Utility functions.
- Time functions.
- Directory management functions.
- Send mail function.
- ICMP ping function.
- ZIP archive functions.
- RS-232 functions.
- TCP/UDP functions.
- FTP functions.
- TFTP functions.
- Windows event log functions.
- LDAP functions.
- WMI functions.
- RRD (Round Robin Database) functions.
- Windows networking functions.
- MS Outlook integration functions.
- Plug-ins
Task Manager controls the script execution. Each task is a combination of a script and its execution parameters (e.g. start time, occurrence, etc.). Task sheet is a list of all managed tasks. Task sheet can be saved/loaded. Currently opened Task Sheet is displayed in Task Manger View. One or more scripts can be executed by Task Manager simultaneously.
Performance monitor allows the user to monitor CPU usage of the script(s). By reducing the CPU usage we reduce the risk of system failure due to overload. There are many ways to reduce such a risk. The easiest way to do that is to use Sleep() and MilliSleep() in tight loops. It is very important to develop reliable script(s) on the design stage of the system.
The Application Preferences allow the user to customize the behavior of the application.
NetDecision Script Language is powerfull and extendable language. The scalability of the language is achived by using plug-ins. The Plug-in is a DLL module with predefined interface. This interface is open to allow third-party vendors to create their own extensions to the NetDecision script Language. The interface definition can be found in "NetDecision Plug-in Interface Definition" documentation.
The standard plug-in extension is npl (NetDecision Plug-in). Those plug-ins are located in NetDecision Plugins directory. Graphical user interface is available for the users to be able to view loaded plug-ins in NetDecision Script Studio.
The following figure shows Plug-ins Viewer:
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