Squawker 1.1.0

Squawker is a small application I wrote for use in the Network Operations Centre of an ISP where I once worked.<br /><br />It does not require very much resource from the Macintosh, and will happily run on an older (PPC or Intel) otherwise unused machine.<br /><br />The program listens on a UDP port for messages from various servers on the network. On receiving a message, Squawker then uses the built-in text-to-speech capabilities of a Macintosh to read this message aloud, giving staff an audible alert to possible network or server issues<br /><br />It will also optionally record the IP address of the machine sending the message togther with the text of the message in the system log on the receiving Macintosh.<br /><br />The monitored servers use netcat (or similar) to send their messages<br /><br />e.g. Software running on a Linux server that monitors disk usage could do something like:<br /><br /> echo "Disk /dev/hda1 is almost full" | nc -q 0 -u squawkermac 3129<br /><br />on detection that a disk drive has almost reached its capacity.<br />See the linux man page (man nc) for more detail on using the nc command.<br /><br /><br />and Squawker will speak this message out loud.<br /><br />The voice used (several different voices are available in Mac OS) can be selected by pressing the Voice control on the main window.<br /><br />Other controls enable the message queue to be cleared (in the event of a huge backlog of messages) and set the UDP port that Sqawker listens on.

Requirements:	No special requirements
Platforms:	Mac, Mac OSX
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