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12 Using OLE Automation with Symantec pcAnywhere
About the pcAnywhere Automation Server
About the pcAnywhere Automation Server
What you can do with the pcAnywhere Automation
Server
OLE Automation controller: An application or development tool that
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accesses and controls the components that have been exposed by the OLE
Automation server
You can use any programming language that supports OLE Automation.
The two most common programming languages are Microsoft Visual Basic
and Microsoft Visual C++.
An external application accesses an OLE Automation server by connecting to the
server and then requesting access to one or more of its published interfaces. An
interface is an entry point that allows access to one or more related methods or
properties. After an application obtains an interface to the server, it can then
call any internal interface method as though it were part of the external
application.
The pcAnywhere Automation Server lets external applications manage
pcAnywhere remote and host files to automate remote control and file transfer
tasks. The pcAnywhere Automation Server functions as a programmable
replacement for the Symantec pcAnywhere user interface and mirrors much of
its default behavior.
For example, when you create a host object in pcAnywhere, the first available
modem TAPI device is assigned by default. Similarly, when you create a host
object using the pcAnywhere Automation Server and then enumerate through
the list of assigned connections, the first available modem TAPI device is
already assigned.
The pcAnywhere Automation Server lets you automate a variety of
administrative and productivity tasks. For example, you can do the following:
Automatically distribute and install software updates on multiple
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computers across your network
Schedule automatic file transfers between computers for audit or archive
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purposes
This document contains several examples, written in both Visual Basic and
Visual C++, to illustrate how to connect to and use the pcAnywhere Automation
Server.
See
"Visual Basic object definitions"
on page 19.
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