Hello,
My question is rather lengthy so please bear with me.
I have written a kiosk program in Macromedia Director. This kiosk program displays informational items as well as displays employee photos. The kiosk program is installed on 6 different machines throughout a manufacturing plant. Since the kiosks are spread across the manufacturing plant floor, the client wanted an easy solution for checking the status of each of the kiosks to see if they were running.
My solution to this problem was to create a couple of .asp pages for monitoring as well as creating text files.
The first .asp page I wrote is called 'kioskupdater.asp'. The only function of this .asp page is to create a file on the server using the name of kiosk as the filename that is created on the server. This .asp page is called from within the kiosk program every 2 minutes. Thus the kiosk file, which is named according to the kiosk, is being updated on the server every 2 minutes. This .asp page is working without any problems.
The second .asp page I wrote, and I need help with validating the code, is called 'index.asp'. In a nutshell this .asp pages main functionality is to compare the modified time of the kiosk file that was created by the 'kioskupdated.asp' page against the time on the server. If the modified time of the kiosk file happens to be greater than the 'offset' time, a graphic displaying the kiosk being 'offline' is suppose to be displayed. Conversely if the kiosk files modified time falls within the 'offset' time, a graphic displaying the kiosk being 'online' is displayed. Finally if no kiosk file has been created for a particular kiosk a 'n/a' graphic is displayed.
This is what the index.asp page looks like when it's running:
http://www.rise4peace.com/
This is the code behind the index.asp page:
http://www.rise4peace.com/
The main function of the 'index.asp' page is called:
is_kiosk_active("asm_ping"
The first parameter is the name of the kiosk file that should be present on the server. The second parameter is the offset time. The index.asp page passes the name of each of the kiosk files that should be present on the server along with the same offset time.
The problem that I am experiencing is that every once in awhile the index.asp page will report that one of the kiosks is 'offline' but in actuality it is not. My concern is that one or more my time comparison routines is failing and thus returning an 'offline' graphic.
Since I am comparing the kiosk files military time against the servers military time I think I may have an issue with it crossing over into a new day but I am just not 100% sure. Since this is my first attempt at writing .asp code I am hoping that one of the many gurus here can help point out any problems within the code I have written.
Many thanks,
rise4peace
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I see your doing alot of manual manipulation of values, like return AM or PM, and return hours....but keep in mind that in most cases, no matter what kind of data your trying to get, theres already a function in ASP that will do all that for you...like dateDiff(). You don't need all that code...dateDiff will replace it.
Do you need any more info?
Here's the function I re-wrote. Does this look alright?
FUNCTION is_kiosk_active(whatFileNa
' Create an instance of FileSystemObject object
Set loFs = Server.CreateObject("Scrip
' Get the physical path of the file
lsPath = Server.MapPath(whatFileNam
'the file exists lets check to see if the kiosk is up and running by comparing
'time values on the server and the modified time of the kiosk file
IF loFs.FileExists(lsPath) Then
' Get a handle/pointer to this file
Set loFile = loFs.GetFile(lsPath)
' Get the "Date Last Modified" property of this file
modifiedFileTime = loFile.DateLastModified
' Get the difference in minutes between the file on the server and the server time itself
minuteDifference = dateDiff("n", modifiedFileTime, Now())
' if the difference in time between the kiosk file on the server and the server time itself
' is greater than the offset time then the kiosk is not responding and is offline.
IF (minuteDifference > whatOffset) Then
' Release the objects
Set loFs = Nothing
' the kiosk is down
is_kiosk_active = "false"
ELSE
' Release the objects
Set loFs = Nothing
' the kiosk is running
is_kiosk_active = "true"
END IF
ELSE
' Release the objects
Set loFs = Nothing
is_kiosk_active = "waiting"
END IF
END FUNCTION
'
You call it as follows:
FulFill_kioskStatus = is_kiosk_active("fulfill_p
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by: alorentzPosted on 2004-03-04 at 11:18:02ID: 10516712
I didn't read through all the code, but the idea is to compare time created to Now()...correct?
Best way to do that is use the DateDiff function:
min = dateDiff("n", datecreated, Now())
- "n" means to determine minutes apart
- datecreated should be the value of the file creation date
- Now() meanes compare to right now
min will be the time, in minutes between the file creation and Now(). Then compare min to the allowable minutes (looked like you were passing 15)
Get it? i think that will be a lot less code than you have...