Alert: Windows EventLog

I can send you a message when an entry is written to the Windows EventLog (useful to monitor a server)
Open the "<installDir>/Addins/LogWatcher.xml" file:



Configure the Watcher elements (here we are monitoring the "Application" log for "Warning" and "Error" messages only).
Use the "logwatch" command to start monitoring:



You can type "logwatch /list" to display the list of monitored logs, and "logwatch /stop" to stop monitoring.

Command: help

You can type "help" to display all available commands and your own aliases:

Installation: Windows service

There is a new way to run MyHAL on Windows. Download the Windows setup, extract it and run setup.exe. Go in the installation directory (by default: "C:\Program Files\MyHAL project\MyHal") and modify the "MyHal.Service.exe.config" as explained here.
Then go in "Start"-"Control Panel"-"Administrative tools"-"Service" and start the "MyHal" service. Now, MyHAL will start automatically with your machine.

(see the "MyHal.log" file in the installation directory in case of any errors)

Command: "alias"

You can create your own commands by using the "alias" command.
For example, you want to launch a TV recording program remotely. Firt add a new command:



(/action: [a]dd, [r]emove or [l]ist aliases. Here we're adding a new alias, named "tv")
Now you have you own "tv" command!

You can also specify arguments to the program launched:


Now, by typing "ie", Internet Explorer will be launched with google as its start page.


You can list and remove aliases:

Command: "!" (history)

I can display your 10 latest commands by typing "!":

Command: "ps"

The "ps" command displays running processes:



/p displays the PID, /r displays the priority, /sort is used to sort by name, pid or priority.

(to display the help, type: "ps /?" or "ps /help")

Alert: File System

I can send you a message when a file is created on your disk. (e.g. you want to be warned when a file download is finished).
Open the "<installDir>/Addins/FileWatcher.xml" file:



Add as many "Watcher" tag as you have directories to monitor. Here the first Watcher monitors the creation of text files (.txt) in "c:\" (for Windows systems); the second Watcher monitors the creation of any file in "/home/jc" (for Linux systems).
Use the "fwatch" command to start monitoring:



(here you can see that only one directory will be monitored because the second one doesn't exist)

As soon as a file is created in a watched directory and matches the filter, I send you a message:



You can type "fwatch /list" to display the list of monitored directories, and "fwatch /stop" to stop monitoring.