#143425 - 2005-07-12 05:07 PM
Panic Button Request.....??
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StarwarsKid
Seasoned Scripter
Registered: 2005-06-15
Posts: 506
Loc: Oregon, USA
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I had a very interesting question posted to me this morning by our HR department. Let me share it with you. 
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OK. Is there any possibility of our installing some sort of "panic button" at all or most desks that, when pushed, would activate an "instant message," with or without some accompanying sound, that would flash up on all department computers except the ones in the vicinity of the pushed button? Could it be button-pusher specific--i.e. the instant message would say that the button had been pushed in Department X or by Person Y? If so, would it be possible to have different levels of alert in the message? Like, if you pushed once, the instant message would read "Kindly Call 911 NOW," but if you pushed it twice, it'd read "Hey, yo, somebody come down here and help me calm this guy down"? Or maybe we would need to have two buttons for the different messages??? And is there any way that, after someone calls 911, they could send out another instant message, letting everybody know that 911 has been called so that we don't jam up the phone lines?
My first thoughts were that this could be done with a local KiXtart script or KiXforms (by the way, I've never worked with KiXForms yet). I could use INGROUP for selecting the appropriate people, but how would I omit persons that are in the vaccinity of the message originator?
This would also require me to PUSH a message to clients. Can a KiX script push script execution to other computers? (Ahh, I just thought of this and I might be able to compile a list for a NET SEND message from a query of an AD group minus the computers in the local vaccinity. I'm thinking I might need to use an LDAP query for this instead of INGROUP. Would that be correct thinking?)
Also, this person is asking for several levels of messaging so I would assume I might need a menu or two seperate scripts (depending on if I use KiXtart or KiXForms).
This was a very odd request. Does anyone have any suggestions?? Thanks!!
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let the wise listen and add to their learning,
and let the discerning get guidance- Proverbs 1:5
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#143429 - 2005-07-12 10:46 PM
Re: Panic Button Request.....??
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kholm
Korg Regular
Registered: 2000-06-19
Posts: 714
Loc: Randers, Denmark
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It is possible to do this using computer software, we have had a solution working for about 3 years.
Only but is, it needs a programable keyboard to work, so a litle hardware is also needed 
We dedicate 3 buttons:
1: Write an alert ini-file in a common share containing Type=Red
This file is named Workstation-name.ini and could look like this:
[Alert]
Type=Red
Time=10.08.37
2: Write an alert ini-file in a common share containing Type=Yellow
This file is named Workstation-name.ini and could look like this:
[Alert]
Type=Yellow
Time=10.08.37
3: Delete the file Workstation-name.ini (Call of the alarm)
This is 3 different aps (Could be KiX-scripts)
A listening application that checks the alert-share is startet automatically on all computers where alerts should be received and reacted to.
This have a config.ini of whitch alerts to react to (ie. show an alert-popup)
Example config.ini:
[ListenTo]
Computer1=1
Computer8=1
Computer12=1
ComputerXX=1
The listening app (could also be a KiX-script) will check every 5 secs. if there is any alerts to react to, a popup is shown on the ws's where the user has to react.
This is easy to configure and includes no extra wiring, but You have to have programable keyboards to make it work.
-Erik
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