Is there a way, or can there be, a way to notify someone, lets say via e-mail, that autotasks is running? I was thinking of piggy-backing a script to some other task, but can't find one that will work reliably. What I want is for the autotasks process to send me an e-mail at least once a day, just to show it's working. Occassionally, something happens that causes Autotasks to not run (I log in to check something and forget to start it back up, or it encounters an account that someone is modifying and stops, or whatever.) Since this machine is not used/looked at on a regular basis, this can cause it to not run for days. Having something that daily reports that it is running would help prevent that.... Looking for options that can be used with current available options too! Any ideas Shawn?
The only thing I can think of would be to have an external process somewhere that polls the database (opening up the preferences file) via XML to check the time/date automated tasks last run. Then you could get an email when it WASN'T working, rather than only when it was.
Hah, good question, this is an issue. I manually check it every day myself. I tried to use "run file after Hurlnet import" and made a batch script to dump a file, then check if this file existed on my monitoring machines with another script (and delete after the script ran). I also tried checking the pop3 logins for the email manager, however Optigold's autotask appear to be synchronous, so it's possible for autotask to be running (generating invoices), and the email manager will stop checking email, so you get false readings on this also.