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Introduction
This example monitoring setup illustrates how to use an eValid script in scheduled playback and with result reporting entirely by email.

Outline of Solution
This example setup works as follows:

• The main palyback script, Sample.evs, performs the basic actions and establishes the overall architecture of the monitoring activity.

• The script has SaveRecord commands that pick off internal step timing data, which are stored in local file IntraScriptTime.txt. Here is a sample of the kinds of data kept (all times are in msec):

  Step 00: Beginning Playback. Step Time: 0 Total Time: 234 Step 01: Startup Completed. Step Time: 3456 Total Time: 3690 Step 02: Selected Area. Step Time: 40319 Total Time: 44009 Step 03: Input Buy Values. Step Time: 3120 Total Time: 47129 Step 04: Search Completed. Step Time: 8573 Total Time: 95702

• In most cases for monitoring you want to have an ALARM when the total time exceeds a spcified value. In that case, the data can be simplified to include only the total playback time, a single record, for example:

  Total Time: 95702

• The threshold value that triggers an ALARM (announced usually as an email or IM string) is fed to the monitoring script as an environment variable, for example $OverTime, that is specified in the file timeset.txt. Here is how that parameter value is specified:

  # Overtime alarm in milliseconds... $OverTime=120000

• If no overtime alarms or errors occur in the playback, the script ends normally by sending the "Normal Run -- Playback Ended OK" email message along with the accumualted intra-script timings.

• If an overtime alarm is sensed -- checked with an OvertimeAlarm command near the end of the script -- then playback control passes to the AlarmEmail.evs script, which sends the "Overtime Alarm" email message.

• If an error occurs during playback then playback control passes to the ErrorEmail.evs script, which sends the "Error Alarm" email message.

Script
Here is the eValid playback script that illustrates how this is done. As is the case in most scripts like this, the recording is made "from life" and then hand-modified for the needed control effects.

# Recording made on: Microsoft Windows Vista Service Pack 1 # Copyright (c) 2019 by Software Research, Inc. # # This script is demonstrates eValid operations in an email-only # monitoring application. ProjectID "Project" GroupID "Test" TestID "Sample" LogID "AUTO" DeleteCache DeleteCookies EnvironmentVariableFile "timeset.txt" ## Delay Multiplier settings to zero so that all Wait commands are ignored... PlayValue _PM 0 OnAlarmGoScript "AlarmEmail.evs" OnErrorGoScript "ErrorEmail.evs" ResetTimer ElapsedTime "00_Begin_Play" SaveRecord IntraScriptTime.txt "\nStep 00: Beginning Playback. Step Time: %e Total Time: %E" OVERWRITE # -------------------------------------------------------------------------- # Get started... InitLink "http://www.crea.ca/" Wait 6802 InputValue 0 125 "SELECT-ONE" "" "select2" "Brandon" "3" "" SubFrameSet 1 "Brandon Real Estate Board" Wait 20654 ElapsedTime "01_Home_Page" SaveRecord IntraScriptTime.txt "Step 01: Startup Completed. Step Time: %e Total Time: %E" # -------------------------------------------------------------------------- # Open up the Brandon Real Estate Board area... FollowLink 1 38 "Property Search" "http://www.breb.mb.ca/index.php?" \ "option=com_listingresult&view=search&Itemid=28" "" Wait 6155 ElapsedTime "02_Brandon_Area" SaveRecord IntraScriptTime.txt "Step 02: Selected Area. Step Time: %e Total Time: %E" # -------------------------------------------------------------------------- # Click on the Property Search tab and Input Details... InputValue 1 74 "SELECT-ONE" "" "priceMin" "$100,000" "2" "" Wait 2558 InputValue 1 90 "SELECT-ONE" "" "priceMax" "$200,000" "4" "" Wait 7051 InputValue 1 298 "CHECKBOX" "" "areaC19" "1" "TRUE" "" Wait 5710 ElapsedTime "03_Input_Details" SaveRecord IntraScriptTime.txt "Step 03: Input Buy Values. Step Time: %e Total Time: %E" # -------------------------------------------------------------------------- # Click on Submit for results, if any... SubmitClick 1 423 "" "Search" "Search" "" NAV ElapsedTime "04_Search_Results" SaveRecord IntraScriptTime.txt "Step 04: Search Completed. Step Time: %e Total Time: %E" SaveWindow 1 "snapshot" OvertimeAlarm $OverTime "Exceeded $TO Threshold" "" "" 2 Wait 8386 WindowClose 1 SendFile "OKevalidmonitoring0001@gmail.com" "Normal Run -- Playback Ended OK..." "IntraScriptTime.txt" # End of script.

Sample OK Email
Here is a sample OK email response from the eValid playback.

OK Email Message (Click for Full-Size Image)

Sample FAIL Email Messages
Here is a sample FAIL email response due to an Overtime Alarm from the playback. In this case, the script concluded normally, but the total playback time was above the specified threshold.

Overtime Alarm Email Message (Click for Full-Size Image)

Here is a sample FAIL email response due to an Error Alarm encountered during from the playback. In this case, the script encountered some kind of problem, typically due to the unavailability of some page along the way

Error Alarm Email Message (Click for Full-Size Image)