KS-Soft

That looks just about perfect.

Thanks.

I've been using the import function to import text files into host monitor, but I'm finding the cut and paste thing quite tiresome... does anyone know of a decent free utility that will allow me to script this, incrementing the relevant lines (ie computername) by a value of 1? I'm sure there's a cle...

Alex, I take it back. I've had a play and it works fine now.

Thanks for your help.

Mark.

Thanks Alex. I did see that, but when I select the second translate macros box, it it disappears when I change the alert from "files are different" to "file does not contain a string". So I put the path to the file in the second box BEFORE o change the alert type?

Thanks.

Thanks for the help - unfortunately the test is STILL giving invalid results. In the test I have - Test by - Host Monitor Test method - Compare Files Alert when - file contains a string File - \\wmln2-m3-001\tech$\logs\test.log (Translate macros is ticked) String - Ended : %ddd% %mmm% %dd% Compare -...

Alex, I should mention - this isn't comparing files. THe previous days logs are overwritten.

Thanks.

Thanks for that Alex. I tried what you said, but the %mmm% %dd% doesn't seem to work. Works OK if I just use fixed strings (if I keep the string as "Ended :" it comes back as a good result, if I change the text file to read "Ededed :" Host Monitor throws a bad result), but as soo...

Hi all. I'm (almost) completely new to Host Monitor, and I'm trying to accomplish a task with it, with a view to buying the product. I have a system that writes a new log file every morning to a share. This log file, if the task has been successful, will have a final line of - Ended : Tue Aug 08 or ...