Packet for Windows released!

Packet, a JSON web packet sending tool perfect for System Administrators, Web developers, system integrators and IOT afficianados has now been released.

Packet and IFTTT allows you to automate nearly anything including skype conversations, posting to twitter, linked in or facebook or turning on my lights.

Packet provides the flexibility to send JSON packets to any WEB API including Yo and the IFTTT Maker service. The application can be run silently from the command line or as an interactive application and requires no installation on any machine with .Net 3.5 installed.

I am a big user of IFTTT (if this then that) as an online API that allows me to automate the interaction of many services. While testing the new Maker functionality I identified that I had a program built for a different purpose that would be the simplest way to test and use this service in Windows. I also realised how many APIs these days are based on REST functionality and use JSON packets to transmit data. 

So now that I have built it I am giving it away. If you have a little bit of experience with JSON (or can follow the documentation on your preferred REST API) and love to tinker then this is a great little testing or automation tool for windows.

You can get Packet here.

How Packet Works

Packet allows you to send a JSON packet to any web API by specifying a URL and also the JSON content. You can do this from the command line or interactively.

The user interface is self explanatory with fields for the URL and JSON.

You will receive a confirmation of successful requests and your data is saved in the application to speed up data entry when you next open it.

That's it!

You can get Packet here.

So now the only question is what to automate? I think setting the WeMo CoffeeMaker to make me another coffee every 50 emails is probably a good start....

Print Terminator is now FREE

It is not uncommon that printer problems can require System Administrators to manually clear jammed jobs from print queues.

Print Terminator makes this easy by allowing you to select any printers on a system and in one click terminate all print jobs. You can also specify an aged time to only terminate jobs that are older than a specified number of minutes ensuring new print jobs are not affected.

Print Terminator can be scheduled using the Windows Task Scheduler and can send an email notification when jobs are purged from any printer.

Print Terminator is now free! Find out more about Print Terminator.

Lookup is now FREE for members

Lookup 8 is a powerful search client for Microsoft Access databases.

Lookup is a simple yet powerful client for searching Microsoft Access databases. Lookup includes links to the most commonly used windows tools and allows you to add 10 of your most commonly used programs as well. These programs can be sorted by you and will link to the function keys across the top of your keyboard (F1-F12) as shortcuts. Our database even comes with the Australian postcode database included as sample data.

Lookup is now free - find out more about Lookup. A full licence is available in the members section of www.chrisdunn.name. Registration is free.

FREE Lookup 8 Licence

As I no longer actively develop Lookup I have decided to give it away for FREE!

Lookup is a powerful search tool for Microsoft Access databases allowing complex, fast searching and analysis.

Become a member of www.chrisdunn.name to get your free Lookup licence.

For More Information on Lookup see here.

MonitorThis passes 150,000 hours!

MonitorThis has now passed 150,000 monitoring hours (that I am aware of) and is there any better way to celebrate than to add more functionality.

MonitorThis is an enterprise focused monitoring service configured from a single XML file which includes a suite of monitors that can be configured to perform environmental monitoring checks.

New to MonitorThis is Windows Event Log Monitoring allowing you to configure checks for specific types of events or applications allowing you to proactively identify and resolve any issues before your users do.

 

Xsemmel MT is a customised version of Xsemmel designed for validating and configuring MonitorThis XML files.

Based on XSemmel by Frank Schnitzer this great XML editor has been further enhanced to assist you in validating your MonitorThis configuration before deployment.

 Find out more about Xsemmel MT and MonitorThis.

XSemmel MT for MonitorThis Released

 

Xsemmel MT is a customised version of Xsemmel designed for validating and configuring MonitorThis XML files.

Based on XSemmel by Frank Schnitzer this great XML editor has now been enhanced to assist you in validating your MonitorThis configuration before deployment.

 Find out more about Xsemmel MT and MonitorThis.

Print Queue Manager 6.0.0.24

Print Queue Manager 6 has now been updated to 6.0.0.24.

This update resolves an issue where some HP Printer drivers can send incorrect page counts to the print queue manager logs while printing. An enhancement has been implemented to allow sending a job to print by double clicking a job in the print queue when AutoQueue is enabled.

Your feedback is greatly appreciated and always helps to enhance this product further.

Members can add, update or view previous requests through the Support page.

Print Queue Manager 6.0.0.23

Print Queue Manager 6 has now been updated to 6.0.0.23.

The latest updates improve application performance, remove 'ghost' print jobs and resolves an issue with MyQueue failing to load. This update has been made mandatory for all previous users of Print Queue Manager 6 and will be received on next launch.

Your feedback is greatly appreciated and always helps to enhance this product further.

Members can add, update or view previous requests through the Support page.

MonitorThis Released

MonitorThis has now been released!!

MonitorThis is an enterprise focused monitoring service configured from a single XML file which includes a suite of monitors that can be configured to perform environmental monitoring checks.

I prefer to describe it as a task scheduling service on steriods. It has no user interface and is designed to run as a silent background service which can run tasks regularly at predefined intervals or at scheduled times. It can be installed from the command line, automatically updates regularly from a network share and can save alerts to a network location, posts alerts to a web portal or send email notifications. I have included a basic Classic ASP portal to help you get started.

Read more: MonitorThis Released

Web Stalker 1.4 Release

Web Stalker v1.4 has now been released. This application allows website administrators to monitor site URLs to confirm that they are operating and responding correctly. It tests any given collection of URLs for their HTTP response code. When an invalid response code is detected the application can raise an alert or send an email. The online user guide contains additional information on how to use this feature.

New in version 1.4 is the ability to clear all sites from the list, a feature to automatically search IIS for virtual directories to populate sites on windows machines and numerous minor fixes.

WebStalker is a FREE addition to the Stalker Monitoring applications.

Try Web Stalker today.