FTP Upload Utility for a Single MPT Specimen
gus_mpt_ftp_put.pl 'string 1' 'string 2'
Track the progress of MTS MultiPurpose TestWare tests (or perhaps some other) from outside the testing facility via FTP. This is the best way to track an individual MPT specimen because it can be called within the MPT procedure itself.Suppose you have a FlexTest IIm testing machine running a test on a servo-hydraulic test fixture affectionately named Slithy Tove. That test runs 24/7 for weeks on end. But you cannot afford the downtime if it should stall at night and on weekends while unobserved. Also you do not want to waste employee-hours to tend the machine all this while. Answer: assign an employee to monitor Slithy Tove remotely by FTP. This script provides for that.
Suppose that your company has an FPT server and that on the company side of the firewall the deamon's outgoing directory is in the path K:\foo. To accomodate that you edit this Perl script's configuration thus: $destination = 'K\foo';. And again suppose you have a test arbitrarily named Slithy Tove running under MultiPurpose TestWare on FlexTest software by MTS. Inside of the that you can employ a special process called Start Application. The application to start is this script. And when calling is script by Start Applictation, you give it two arguments. Both arguments are strings. The first arg would be 'slithy_tove' and the second might be 'Mimsy were the borogroves' or anything else at all. The result of this would be a line written (or appended) to the path K:/foo/slithy_tove.txt such that its most recent line would be On Mon Feb 2 13:34:17 2004 MPT reported: Mimsy were the borogoves with the date from when Start Application was triggered. Personally, I like to put one at the head of every Group process. Then from home an hour away I can FTP-download a reasonably up-to-date status file for any test where I've employed this script.
For use in congunction with the Start Application process of MultipPurpose Test software on FlexTest IIm testing machines by MTS...or any other similar software which can fork an event to Perl.
Perl script gus_mpt_ftp_get.pl for use in concert.
Gan Uesli Starling <gan@starling.us>
Copyright (c) 2004, Gan Uesli Starling. All rights reserved. This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the same terms as Perl itself.
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