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I am about to develop an application that will allow Messenger style alerts
to be displayed on users’ workstations. The nature of these alerts is for
“System X is currently down!†type messages.
What is the most efficient way of doing this? I want to reduce the overhead
on workstations, servers and networks as much as possible. If successful,
this application could be running on 25,000+ workstations globally, so it
must also be scaleable. Another requirement is to have little (or no)
dependencies on other systems (Exchange, OCS, etc).
I was thinking of writing a simple application that lives in the system
tray, which will poll an XML file on a DFS server (so presumably local) to
see if it has recently changed. If the file has changed, copy it locally, and
display the pending alerts.
Simple in its execution, but efficient?
Thanks
to be displayed on users’ workstations. The nature of these alerts is for
“System X is currently down!†type messages.
What is the most efficient way of doing this? I want to reduce the overhead
on workstations, servers and networks as much as possible. If successful,
this application could be running on 25,000+ workstations globally, so it
must also be scaleable. Another requirement is to have little (or no)
dependencies on other systems (Exchange, OCS, etc).
I was thinking of writing a simple application that lives in the system
tray, which will poll an XML file on a DFS server (so presumably local) to
see if it has recently changed. If the file has changed, copy it locally, and
display the pending alerts.
Simple in its execution, but efficient?
Thanks