Scripting Basics

Most ScanEngine Explorer action can be automated by script. Script commands are provided that can perform:

• Communications actions
  • web fetch
  • snmp get, set, next, or bulkget
  • ping
• access to all ScanEngine Explorer global variables
• create temporary variables and assign initial values
• misc program actions
  • charting
  • logging
    • transaction log
    • message content log
    • text log
    • logfile renaming
    • deleting
  • database reading & writing
  • emailing
• logical testing (if / else)
• full math expression evaluation
• automatic script repetition control

Some ScanEngine Explorer actions that cannot be automated by script, are:

• loading and saving workspaces
• loading and saving scripts
• loading and saving preferences
• loading and saving transaction logs
• loading, saving, or editing html parsing scripts

The guideline for ScanEngine Explorer is to provide scriptable functionality to automate communication monitoring and/or control, while ScanEngine Explorer environmental control remains manual.

Scripts are created, edited, tested, and run in a script panel. The script panel provides the following functions:

• loading and saving scripts
• adding, deleting, or inserting lines
• moving script lines up or down
• initializing, running, stopping, pausing, resuming, or single stepping scripts