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Parsing all selected servers as arguments to external tool

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 Posted Thursday, August 21, 2008
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I have a suggestion which would benefit me...

I have a few scripts which I've got set up as external tools (eg, determine a computer's uptime). I've written the scripts to take multiple arguments, but VNC Manager will only pass a single computer name at a time. Maybe there could be a configuration option in the external tool setup screen that says "pass multiple selections as single arguments (open tool multiple times)" or "pass multiple selections as multiple arguments (open tool once)"

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Hi Scott,
it might be useful feature for some users indeed. We sure could add another substitution variable like ($SERVERS_IP) but there is a problem. If you have multiple computers selected, the VNC Manager would execute and external tool for each selected computer. But in your user case you would want the tool to be execute only once and have list of selected computer's ips to be passed as a command line argument.
So we should carefully consider how this feature could be implemented nicely.




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