avanti's TaskMaster ® User Submitted Sample Task Contributed by: Greg Palumbo - Telcobuy.com, Inc. / World Wide Technology, Inc. (Posted: 02 December 2001)

Purpose Accumulate Outbound and Inbound GWIA totals into a CSV file which can be read into Excel and a monthly statistical graph can be produced. Overview The GWIA gateway NLM keeps a running total on its screen, but unless you use the accounting feature and a third party app to parse the accounting log files, you can't get a simple chart showing the daily totals. Also, the counter never resets so you have to remember to grab the totals every day. What this script does is save the screen to a temp file every day at the same time. Then it parses the file for the OUTBOUND and INBOUND numbers and appends them to a monthly log in CSV format. Then on the 1st of the month at 12:01AM, it activates the GWIA screen and resets the counters by KEYIN statements. The Task Files GWIASTAT.TSK GWIARSET.TSK GWIASTAT.TSK is the daily task which collects and logs the statistics. GWIARSET.TSK is the monthly task which resets the GWIA gateway counters.