Hi,

If anyone can offer suggestions on the following it's appreciated very much.

As my loginname suggests we have a weird program installed on a TS server. Essentially it is a robot, which depends on having (virtual) keyboard- and mousecontrol and (virtual) screenscraping. We run 15 TS sessions with each a different set of tasks for the robot. The robots must be able to operate unattended at night, so we run the 15 sessions from a server. The sessions themselves need to remain open for the robot to work, also the robot requires a resolution of 1024x768.
So far it all works out nicely with Terminal Server. There's even some basic control on the robots with TSAdmin, with which individual robots can easily be selected, viewed and controlled.

However operators very frequently need to check on the robots as there's all sorts of things that can (and do) go wrong. The TS solution itself is not the issue, it's all in the application controlled by the robot and the robot metadata.


And here comes challenge #1: the operators would very much like to view the progress of all robots "full screen", in seperate windows on a single screen on their laptop. Or at least be able to easily 'walk through' all of the robots with a single click. This is needed once every half hour.
With the "full screen" option, think of a mosaic of screens, scaling down to 640x480 is acceptable. However TSAdmin has no such option and there is now way we know of to present all 15 screens at once (unless we write a robot for that , which alas is no option).

Anyone have an idea?

Challenge #2 is that on an almost daily basis operators and developers need to analyse the (virtual) mouse actions in tasks that fail. For this they need to have the mousepointer shown. Here also TSAdmin seems not to offer any functionality.

Anyone with ideas on this?

Again, any suggestions you have to offer is appreciated greatly. Even if it involves a non-TS solution...

Thanks in advance,


WeirdProg.