Ghost Solution Suite

I'm currently using Ghost Console v8.2 at three remote locations. I'm looking for a better way to programmatically write the task log out to a text file. I'm currently running a VB script which uses SendKeys to interact with the Console window. This works OK at one location where I'm using VNC and not closing the remote session (e.g. with a screen saver). At the other two locations, I'm using Windows XP's remote desktop. When I disconnect from the session, I don't log off, but the session closes. At this point, using SendKeys ceases to function correctly. Any help would be appreciated.

Right now I don't think there's a nice way to do that.

That's a good suggestion for something we can easily add though, both as a console command-line option (retaining the existing export format the console uses, which is set up more for human-readability than automated parsing) and perhaps via some other way more suited for scripting.

Thanks for such a prompt reply Nigel!

I understand that version 2 of the Ghost Solution Suite has been "pulled back" and will be released some time next month. I'm sure that, at this late stage the chances are slim and none, but is there any possibility that something like this could be included before it is released? If it can't be added to version 2, would it be possible to get something as an "add-on" subsequent to the release of version 2?

I'm thrilled to have found this forum. We've been using Ghost since DOS version 2. It's great to have the hands-on support of the programmers themselves. Keep up the good work!

Is there an alternate way to access the Console data, from a remote location, and retrieve a list the image jobs that were run on a particular day... showing a list of jobs along with how many machines were supposed to be reimaged and how many were successfully reimaged for each job in the list?

Right now, I don't know of a good way for any version of GSS; the information on this sits in the task log in the database tables, but we don't let those be network-accessible at the moment (which isn't just about exposing the data, but figuring out who to let access it).

As it stands now, you really would have to write your own scripts to extract this data from the database and put it somewhere you can access.

Can I access the task log programmatically from the machine on which the Console is installed?

If so, would you be so kind as to give me some direction as to how to accomplish that?