10 Watchdog

The use of Oracle Hospitality Cruise Watchdog enable you to restart the application at predefined time without having to manually login whenever it restarts.

Watchdog, will start and refreshes the interfaces added, enabling its WatchdogRule file and silently authenticate with the latest available login screen.

You are advised to install and configure the Watchdog application in FMS 9.1 for silent authentication when you restart FMS, if it is not already running on the machine. This is only applicable to Interfaces Sender, Receiver, ResOnline, and ResOnline Polar.

Note:

Failure to install and configure Watchdog may cause a record processing delay.

Adding a New Rule

For each application, the rules need to be defined separately.

1. From the Fleet Management Watchdog Service Status screen, click Add.
2. The new Rule is highlighted in the left column. Click Edit.
3. Enter the details about the application, such as Rule Name, Rule description, or Executable. Check or uncheck the Actions (i.e. Conditional Restart Action, Scheduled Restart Action and Run Instance Action).
4. Click Apply to save the Rule.