WindowsDDC is a framework to ease and automate repetitive executions of console applications (probes) over a set of LAN networked Windows personal computers.
The framework allows for the remote execution of probes, providing support for collecting the execution output of probes (stdout and stderr).
Additionally, right after a probe execution, the output can be parsed and processed by user defined code (post collecting code, written in Python) that can act accordingly to user's needs.
The framework can be useful to perform repetitive large-scale monitoring and administrative tasks over machines with transient availability, that is, machines that present no guarantees of being available at a given time.
WindowsDDC is distributed under a GNU Public Licence (GPL)
Further information
Patricio Domingues, Paulo Marques, Luis Silva
Distributed Data Collection through Remote Probing in Windows Environments (PDF)
Proceedings of the 13th Euromicro Conference on Parallel, Distributed
and Network-Based Processing (PDP'05), pp 59-65, 2005.
ISBN/ISSN:1066-6192 , 0-7695-2280-7
Download WindowsDDC
WindowsDDC V0.52 (2005-02-25, ZIP file)