PCI WATCHDOG TIME CARD

Throught Monitor
WATCHDOG SERIAL PORT FOR WINDOWS 98/NT/2000/ME

Brief Introduction:

Watchdog Serial Port is an application that monitors the amount of data going in and out of a COM/Serial Port. While monitoring the stream of data, it would also perform tasks in reaction to the amount of data being sent or being received in the COM/Serial port.

Application of Watchdog Serial Port: It could be used to restart a computer that might have been exhibiting some problems. It also could be used to restart devices that are directly connected to the serial port whenever these devices hang or stop responding. This is done by the application by continuously monitoring the amount of data coming in and going out of the serial port. If the minimum amount of data has not been achieved, it will perform some specified action like restarting the motherboard or the external device. For example, Company A has a computer in a remote location outside of town. This computer is connected to the internet via modem to send important data to another remote system. Somehow the modem hanged and was not processing data anymore, as a result no data is received from the modem. Watchdog Serial Port would be able to see that no data is coming from the modem and as a result, Watchdog Serial Port will restart the modem (by shutting the power off and on again).

How to use the Watchdog Serial Port application :


1. Select how many COM / Serial ports you want to use. This is done by checking the corresponding buttons in the !ĦħUse!ĦL column.
2. Choose the COM port you want to monitor. Do this by selecting from the list of COM ports in the !ĦħCOM Port!ĦL column.