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PC - Exceed - CIC

Asked by: robinluo

Hi,

In my work place, we use CIC (Cisco Information Center) to monitor the network. The CIC is running on Unix server, and we run Exceed on our PC so we can retrieve the GUI from Unix and watch it on PC.

In CIC, there is a way to setup the notification, so as whenever there is alarm comes in, it will RING BELL on the workstation. However, I guess that's for Unix workstation only (is this correct???). I never hear my PC beep when there is alarm.

Question: Is there a way to retrieve this notification to my PC as well so the PC can beep when there is alarm? I guess it could be some settings in Exceed? Thanks very much.

In MS Remote Desktop Connection, there is a setting to bring the sound from remote node to the local console, so I am assuming there might be something similar in Exceed....

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Answers

 

by: mjlodgePosted on 2005-01-23 at 18:12:06ID: 13118022

CIC = Micromuse Netcool, by the way. Can't you just have it e-mail you when there's an alarm? The "ring bell" is done by sending the BEL character to the Unix text output. So you could poke around in Exceed to see if there's a setting to honor the BEL character.

Exceed = X windows client. X windows works totally differently to Windows remote desktop, and there's no provision for remote audio.

 

by: mjlodgePosted on 2005-01-23 at 18:14:41ID: 13118033

Typo in the above -- Exceed is an X windows *server* (not client) for PC. My bad.

 

by: robinluoPosted on 2005-01-23 at 18:59:29ID: 13118181

Thanks mjlodge. I've never touched Exceed before cause I was from Microsoft world. I am interested in letting Exceed to honor the BEL character. Could you give a little bit more detail? Hope it's not too complicated....

 

by: mjlodgePosted on 2005-01-23 at 23:06:06ID: 13119025

At the UNIX command prompt, you could try typing

xset +b

before you start CIC, and see if that does the trick.

It's been a few years since I used Exceed, and I don't have a copy on my system any more.

 

by: mjlodgePosted on 2005-01-23 at 23:07:07ID: 13119032

Ah, a quick search in the Excel knowledgebase came up trumps. Try this:

http://www.hummingbird.com/support/nc/exceed/exc9002886.html?searchType=Basic&searchText=beep&rank=3

 

by: holger12345Posted on 2005-01-25 at 07:07:42ID: 13132604

>>Typo in the above -- Exceed is an X windows *server* (not client) for PC. My bad

Even if it makes no difference for the problem: X-server is the XDM (X-Display Manager) at the unix server - if it isn't there, the x-windows client can't connect (or can just use console... but no x-window appears!).
So exceed has to be the x-client... it's the prog that connects to the server

Holger

 

by: holger12345Posted on 2005-01-25 at 07:18:13ID: 13132735

From Hummingbird:
"Exceed®10, the industry leading in PC X server, continues to provide the best of breed connectivity solution for the enterprise users."

The term "PC X Server" could only mean: ... to make available (to serve) a means for a PC to connect (to be a client) to the *real* x-server

... else i completely misunderstand client/server term

sorry to lengthen that
Holger

 

by: mjlodgePosted on 2005-01-25 at 08:06:00ID: 13133293

"So exceed has to be the x-client." No, it isn't. In X windows, the server is responsible for the display and serves requests from clients that want to create windows, draw in the window, render fonts etc. Since Xceed manages the PC's display of X windows -- so you can see them on your PC -- it is indeed functioning as the X server. CIC is the X client application -- the code that is opening the windows and drawing in them. X clients communicate with the X server over the network via the X windows protocol. This is how it's possible for a client app running on a Unix server to be displayed on a windows PC somewhere else on the network.

In the trivial case, both the X windows server and client can be running on the same machine. In that case you happen to see the apps on your screen that you are running on the same computer. But they could equally easily be running 500 miles away on a different computer.

Note that this approach is totally different to remote desktop sharing in the Windows world. Perhaps the easiest way to reduce some of the confusion is to point out that that X windows doesn't do remote desktop sharing. There's no such concept in X windows.

If anyone is still confused about this, go to www.x.org and read the links "client-server design" and  "X protocol"



 

by: robinluoPosted on 2005-01-26 at 18:59:37ID: 13149105

mjlodge,

I tried the registry in Exceed knowledge base, no luck. I am sure it's sth simple but I just don't know. Forgive me, I have totally no idea about Unix. Let me make it a little bit detail, here is how I open up these program:
1. Windows 2000 Pro workstation
2. Load Exceed
3. Load SecureCRT (Telnet program), from there, I telnet to the Unix server, then issue the command /opt/Omnibus/bin/nco -display (IP address of my PC).
4. Then couple "X..." windows will open on my PC, and bring up CIC screen.

I have added the registry key mention in the knowledge base, but still not hearing any beep... did I miss sth?

Many thanks.

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