what I'm basically doing, for anyone that cares, is that we provide a stock ticker feed to our customers, but there's no process in place to monitor the feed to make sure it's working. While they build something more robust (a windows service) my script is a stop gap. I basically get to parse out the times, check to make sure the stock market is open (exclude hours, days and holidays the stock market is down) and then verify that the last updated field is within an acceptable paramter. On fail it'll shoot off an email.
It's stop gap and not entirely necessary, but it's fun, and it also puts me on management's radar in a positive way. Statistics: Posted by Satis — Fri Nov 10, 2006 4:40 pm
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