Web Reporting Interface Idea
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Greetings, One of the many administrative chores I have been tasked with is to keep track of statistics on set of servers at our hub. At first, it wasn't that difficult to do, but we have continued to grow, and the list of servers I must request this data from has gone from one page, front and back, to five pages, front and back. Here's the basic procedure I am now following: Via a Windows 2003 server box, I remote console into each server one at a time (using their IP numbers and the administrative password), open up a command prompt, and enter a one-line string. Upon hitting enter, the command prompt displays the information I need for the report. I then enter this data manually into an Excel spreadsheet. To sum up my objective, I want to be able to open up a single interface, click a button, and have it execute the above steps programattically, and display the data in the appropriate fields. Probably the most important question I have is, is this even feasible? Also, what interops do I have to call on to request data that is usually viewed in a command prompt environment and then return that data to the form? Still coaxing software out of the can after all these years...