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You can have PingPlotter do a few things automatically on startup by specifying command line
arguments. You can put these arguments in a shortcut or enter them from a
DOS command line window.
The format to use is:
pingplotter
[File to Load] [/TRACE:[Address To Trace]] [/SAVE]
Loading a file
at startup
If you enter a argument without a / on it, PingPlotter will try and find a file
by this name and will load it if found.
Example:
pingplotter www.pingplotter.com.pp2
/TRACE
This argument will start tracing automatically when PingPlotter loads. If you
use this with the argument to load a save file on startup, then tracing will
begin to this address. Otherwise, add a colon (:) and the IP Address or server
name you want to trace to.
Example:
pingplotter www.pingplotter.com.pp2 /TRACE
or
pingplotter /TRACE:www.pingplotter.com
If you’re auto saving data, you can put a shortcut in your Windows startup like the following to have PingPlotter load up the myproblemserver.pp2 file (you'd change this filename accordingly for your enviornment) and begin tracing to that destination:
"C:\Program Files\Ping Plotter\PingPlotter.exe" myproblemserver.pp2 /trace
/SAVE
This option can only be used when you specify a file name on the command line.
If you use /SAVE, then any new traces (to the original address specified in
the save file only) will be saved to that file on shutdown automatically without
asking you if you want to save.
Example:
pingplotter www.pingplotter.com.pp2 /TRACE /SAVE
/SINGLEINSTANCE
If PingPlotter is ran with this argument it checks to see if another copy of
the program is running. If it is running, then it exits.
Also, if you passed
in an address to trace (via the /TRACE:address option above), then this address
will be passed to the currently running version. The currently running one will
start tracing to that address.
Example:
pingplotter /SINGLEINSTANCE /TRACE:www.pingplotter.com
/INIFILE
You may want to start PingPlotter with a different set of parameters and setups.
This is particularly useful if you're auto-starting PingPlotter and having
it trace automatically. In this situation, you may want to have different trace
intervals, or graph times, etc. Starting PingPlotter with an alternate INI
file allows you to save multiple setups and use these different setups as needed.
Example:
pingplotter /INIFILE:alternatesetup.ini
/?
Show the command line argument section of the online help.
Example:
pingplotter ?
