I have to create Synthetic End User Transactions from a remote client that would allow Orion to track completion times of different tasks. After explaining this to the Sales person and the Pre-Sales Engineer, we were talked into buying an SE20 license. Wonderful.... until I deployed it and found out that it could only handle recording simple HTML pages. Well we only have one web based client program that we have no issue with. What about all the WIN32 based client server apps that 90% of the world still runs on???? Solarwinds solution was to create a script that would excecute the windows tasks and generate a log file with the desired information and SAM could report on it.
My colleague found a program called Macro Scheduler which he configured to launch Excel, then open a 7meg spreadsheet and spit out a log with the time to completion. I figured, this is a no brainer right????
Wrong!!!! the Solarwinds tech said, " SAM can only read from event logs or SQL databases.
So can anyone direct me to a location where I can find a script to either convert a regular log to an event log, or enter a log result to a database? That way SAM can talk talk to it and generate polling info?