TEM agent getting data from external sources

(imported topic written by SystemAdmin)

Hi guys,

I need to create ATM monitoring solution.

I have ATMs from two vendors: Wincor-Nixdorf and NCR. They have Windows

XP OS. Data from NCR machines can be got by active x controls and from

Wincor by com objects and c++ program.

How can I get data from those ATMs into TEM? The only way that comes to my

mind is writting a custom piece of code in C++ or some other language, that

is independent from TEM, that reads data from active X or com objects and

writes it to Windows registry. And create a custom property in TEM to read

the registry.

Are there smarter ways?

Is there some documentation that I should read?

(imported comment written by BenKus)

I think you are on the right track… The data need to be written in a format that BigFix can find (registry value or file are the typical choices)… So writing some glue scripts like you mentioned are a good way to grab this data and write it out for BigFix.

Ben