How about a FAQ about writing your own Scripts for DIMES?

[TollhouseFrank]

I mean, there is a user tabe available for you to put in your own scripts, but i have yet to find a FAQ on how to write even a simple script to load and run.

[TollhouseFrank]

any ideas here guys? I'd like to learn how to write my own scripts... maybe help make a 'scripting team'?

[Yoav]

The scripts format is really simple at the moment, scripts should contain a line for each measurement you want to perform, each line is of the following form:

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command ip protocol


Where:
command can be either PING or TRACEROUTE
ip is a valid IP address
protocol can be either ICMP or UDP (or if left empty the default protocol is being used)

How's that for a FAQ page?

[TollhouseFrank]

LOL

nice faq!!!!!

So... for me... to write a simple script... it'd be like..

<ping> <100.100.100.100> <ICMP>
<traceroute> <100.100.100.100> <ICMP>

[Yoav]

Well not exactly, I use "<" and ">" as part of my stupid syntax , your script will actually be:

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PING 100.100.100.100 ICMP
TRACEROUTE 100.100.100.100 ICMP


I fixed the original message to avoid this confusion in the future

[TollhouseFrank]

ok!

and the program will automatically send back results without me haviing to script that?

[Yoav]

Exactly.

[llista]

Well not exactly, I use "<" and ">" as part of my stupid syntax , your script will actually be:

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PING 100.100.100.100 ICMP
TRACEROUTE 100.100.100.100 ICMP


I fixed the original message to avoid this confusion in the future

Would this script be valid if I save it as a ip.txt and then load it?:

PING www.cnn.com ICMP
TRACEROUTE www.cnn.com ICMP
PING www.izito.com ICMP
TRACEROUTE www.izito.com ICMP

I hope so but prefer to make sure before I write it, a simple yes or not will do.

[Yoav]

It works on my agent (version 0.4.3)