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Hi,

I have created one task for backup image. I am running this task through command line "ngcons.exe /e task_name".
Now i want to check task status after the completion this task, so my question is how i get task status from this command?


Thanks
-abhinav

I do not know, if there is a command for ngcons.exe to see the status. Why don't you right-click on the task in the task-log, or see the ghosterr.txt for more details?

Hi,

right-click on the task in the task-log
- This is UI based and i want to check through command line.

ghosterr.txt option
- Where this file is located? I want to check task status for both success and failure condition, is this file give me success info?

The Ghosterr.txt file is located at:

C:\Program Files\Symantec\Ghost

normally, there are only errors written in it. Since I use UI, I did not really cared about command line options. Are you using this for scripting?

Ghosterr.txt is not located at Ghost folder but yes 1 error file(random name) is there under db\data folder.

Yes i am using this for scripting, so thats why my problem remains same :(
Is any other pointer which give me help?

-abhinav

I looked up in the Help for Ghost console. There was no switch for letting you see details of any tasks. I guess you have to ask one of the programmers, if there are some more hidden switches for ghost console. ngcons -h only get you some, but I think, you already seen these.

Greetings

Alexander Emmer

Yes i have already checked ngcons -h option but not found anything useful there.

Can anybody tell me right person name who will solve my this problem?

-abhi

Try to contact Eugene Manko. Maybe he can help you.

I am unable to find "Eugene Manko" name in symantec outlook list. Is the name is correct?

http://www.symantec.com/connect/user/eugene-manko

Eugene gave me following comment on my query
"I don't think there is a way to get task status from something like command execute because there is no generic statement to tell whether or not command succeeded. On the other hand result of this task should be reported to the Console but not the actual return code of say the executable.
In your case you are executing command, which itself is a ghost agent exe - it cannot report on itself."


So now anyone tell me what is the best approach for checking task completion status?
(I am using this for scripting, and UI options are not useful for me.)

or

Is any one have diffrent view for my query?

If found an article in the forum, which dealt with a same problem. There Mr. Bree wrote a sript, which collects all the statuses from tasks etc. This is what he says:

/quote
I have written a notification script which periodically collects a list of completed tasks and their statuses from the GSS server, but one very rapidly runs into problems with firewalls when it comes to even such a simple thing as sending e-mail based on this (since few IT environments make SMTP available to their internal e-mail servers, and external e-mail systems like Gmail are also typically firewalled off by IT departments), let alone more complex things which quickly tend to end up needing assistance from external webservices (which tends to open more complexity of configuration and questions about security).
/quote

Maybe you send a PM to him.

Greetings

Alexander Emmer

If found an article in the forum, which dealt with a same problem. There Mr. Bree wrote a sript, which collects all the statuses from tasks etc. This is what he says:

/quote
I have written a notification script which periodically collects a list of completed tasks and their statuses from the GSS server, but one very rapidly runs into problems with firewalls when it comes to even such a simple thing as sending e-mail based on this (since few IT environments make SMTP available to their internal e-mail servers, and external e-mail systems like Gmail are also typically firewalled off by IT departments), let alone more complex things which quickly tend to end up needing assistance from external webservices (which tends to open more complexity of configuration and questions about security).
/quote

Maybe you send a PM to him.

Greetings

Alexander Emmer