How does MarkVision Messenger work?
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Devices in a Specified Folder
If your Action will monitor only a specific folder, choose this option. For example, if you
were in charge of devices on the third floor, and had configured a folder on the
MarkVision Server that included these devices, you could limit the number of devices
your Action monitors by choosing this folder.
Selected Devices
If your Action will monitor only specific devices, choose this option.
Command types
There are four types of commands that your Action can execute:
Send an SMTP e-mail
Your Action, when triggered, sends an e-mail to addresses you specify. These e-mails are highly
customizable from within MarkVision Messenger. For example, an Action, triggered by a Folder
Alerts event, could e-mail an administrator when monitored printers enter a "Low Toner" folder. This
e-mail message could be configured to list the model of printer, its IP address, and the time at which
it entered the "Low Toner" folder.
Execute a command line on the MarkVision Server
Your Action, when triggered, executes a command line. For example, if you wanted to keep a log of
offline devices, you could configure your Action to respond to the "Offline" Device Status Alert. Each
time a monitored device becomes offline, specified information is written to a text file. Like the
example above, the information MarkVision Messenger writes to this text file is highly customizable.
For example, you could specify that the text file list the device model, page count, and the time at
which it went offline.
Execute a command line on a remote host server
Your Action, when triggered, executes a command line on a remote host server. In order to execute
command lines on a remote host server, the rexec client must connect to a rexec server on the
remote host server.
Furthermore, you can specify whether to perform commands conditionally or repeatedly, and how to
execute them. You can have your Action execute its command:
•Only after a specified delay period.
For example, if your Action sends an e-mail message when a printer goes offline, you can
delay the execution of the command for a specified amount of time. This way, if the printer
returns online during the delay period, the e-mail will not be sent. See Delaying Event
notifications for more information.
•After additional conditions have been met.
For example, if your Action is triggered by a Paper Tray Missing event, but you only want to
execute the command when the event occurs for Tray 3, you could write a custom filter to