Lori, A simple approach: Setup your script to call a "heartbeat" procedure as it's very-last step. Something like:
Sub heartBeat() hbeat = FreeFile path = "\\yourpathgoeshere\" FileName = path & "fileMonitor.txt" Open FileName For Output As #hbeat tstr = Date & " - " & Time Print #hbeat, tstr Close #hbeat End Sub All you are doing is writing a date and time-stamp to a file. Then have a second script check the creation-time of the heart-beat file... or the time-stamp contents of the file. If the 1st script did not run properly the second script can send an alert (email, text-page, etc). Option B: For mission-critical applications (ie: interfaces) A little more involved. Have your scripts setup in a master / slave arrangement where the master attempts to process the files but if there is a problem the slave takes-over the processing (becomes the master), completes the process and sends an alert that the other server needs checked. The support-folks at Boston can guide-you on using either approach. Or give me a call if you have questions. ;) Roger D. Jordan Siemens Medical Solutions - Health Services Charleston Area Medical Center [email protected]<mailto:[email protected]> 304-388-7358 From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Monday, October 11, 2010 11:23 AM To: [email protected] Subject: [talkbws] Ideas for Boston Schedule Monitoring I've run scheduled scripts for years for print jobs into ChartMaxx EMR. But just recently added a Meditech Day Close routine to pick up other vendor charge batch. (Meditech evidently cannot imagine how to pick up an OV file.) Now Boston Scripting is even more important. I have a test station and a live station that run schedules. Just wondering if anyone had any ideas on using the test station to monitor that the live was up and working okay. My current method is every night at 7pm, I get an email to my phone which indicates it is "alive" and working. I've had network hangs, lost connections, etc... periodically that could hang the day close job. Just wondering if anyone had a script used by a second machine to be proactive and check on the first machine? Thanks. Lori S Kent, Database Analyst Catawba Valley Medical Center 810 Fairgrove Church Road SE Hickory, NC 28602 phone: 828.326.2024 email: [email protected]<mailto:[email protected]> Catawba Valley Medical Center 810 Fairgrove Church Rd Hickory NC 28602 828-326-3000 "This electronic message may contain information that is confidential and/or legally privileged. It is intended only for the use of the individual(s) and/or entity named as recipients in the message. Please notify the sender immediately and delete the material from your computer if you have received this message in error. Do not deliver, distribute, or copy this message, and do not disclose its contents or take any action as a result of the information it contains. Thank you." --- To post a message to this list, send mail to: [email protected] You are currently subscribed as: [email protected] Unsubscribe in the customer center on our website: http://www.bostonworkstation.com/customer_center/virtual_user_group_talk.aspx Confidentiality Note: The information contained in this message may be privileged and confidential. If this e-mail contains protected health information, you are hereby notified that any dissemination, distribution or copying of this communication is strictly prohibited,except as permitted by law. If you have received this communication in error, please notify the sender immediately by replying to this message and deleting it from your computer. Thank you. --- To post a message to this list, send mail to: [email protected] You are currently subscribed as: [email protected] Unsubscribe in the customer center on our website: http://www.bostonworkstation.com/customer_center/virtual_user_group_talk.aspx
