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Topic: Watchdog


In the News (Wed 3 Dec 08)

  
  Introduction to Watchdog Timers - software hang detection, kick, processor reset
Generally speaking, a watchdog timer is based on a counter that counts down from some initial value to zero.
The process of restarting the watchdog timer's counter is sometimes called "kicking the dog." The appropriate visual metaphor is that of a man being attacked by a vicious dog.
To prevent this, many watchdog implementations require that a complex sequence of two or more consecutive writes be used to restart or reload the watchdog timer.
www.netrino.com /Publications/Glossary/WatchdogTimer.html   (1125 words)

  
 Using the Secure Microcontroller Watchdog Timer - Maxim/Dallas
A watchdog timer is a simple countdown timer which is used to reset a microprocessor after a specific interval of time.
By moving the watchdog timer inside the microcontroller, the number of devices in the system is reduced, increasing the overall system reliability.
For an effective design, the number of watchdog restarts should be kept to a minimum, and some consideration should be given to the likelihood of incorrectly executing a restart.
www.maxim-ic.com /appnotes.cfm?an_pk=101   (1543 words)

  
 Watchdog Indiana<
Watchdog Indiana was founded by Aaron Smith on November 14, 2001.
Watchdog Indiana candidate ratings are also available for prior Indiana General Assembly candidates (starting with the 2006 primary election) at Prior Candidate Ratings.
Watchdog Indiana is established as a non-profit, non-connected, and non-party political action committee (see WINPAC) so contributors will be protected by the bookkeeping and reporting requirements of Indiana's Election Division.
finplaneducation.net   (1365 words)

  
 WinMag
While they liked WatchDog, they didn't want to be bothered by it every time they ran a script that they knew was safe to run.
When WatchDog checks that file again, it will recognize that the file is marked as Safe and, if the file is unmodified, allow it to run.
While WatchDog won't be able to detect what type of file is hidden within the SHS file, it will alert you that the file you were attempting to run was a SHS file.
www.winmag.com /fixes/watchdog/default.htm   (1004 words)

  
 Watchdog journalism - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Watchdog journalism refers to forms of activist journalism aimed at holding accountable public personalities and institutions whose functions impact on the social and political life.
Watchdog journalism is most commonly found in think tanks, alternative media, and citizen journalism such as blogs.
In recent history, a notable example of watchdog journalism was the exposure of Dan Rather's investigative segment which cast George W. Bush's military record in an unfavorable light.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Watchdog_journalism   (232 words)

  
 OutSource Eng. & Mfg. - Watchdog board products
Watchdogs are monitoring devices that are used in those applications where reliable, unattended operation is required.
Watchdog cards are based on the idea that at periodic intervals the Watchdog is "petted".
This Watchdog auxiliary board is designed to work with a watchdog board in the event the motherboard does not have a system reset connection.
www.xmission.com /~outsourc/watchdogs.html   (1635 words)

  
 HOWTO Watchdog Timer - Gentoo Linux Wiki   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
A watchdog is a tool that is supposed to automatically reboot a computer when something goes wrong.
The program that writes to the device is called watchdog (sys-apps/watchdog) and may also monitor other parts of your computer like if some chosen processes are running or your network interface is still receiving data.
For the start don't activate Disable watchdog shutdown on close as this means that you cannot shutdown your software watchdog without having your computer rebooted by the kernel.
gentoo-wiki.com /HOWTO_Watchdog_Timer   (1418 words)

  
 Watchdog Timer Hardware Requirements for Windows Server 2003: Version 1.01
The watchdog timers hardware must provide the operating system a method for setting the countdown time to a range of values from 1 second to 511 seconds, with a granularity of one second.
Watchdog Trigger: Setting this bit triggers the watchdog to start a new count interval, counting down from the value that was last written to the Watchdog Count Register.
If the watchdog is in the Enabled\Stopped state and a 1 is written to bit 0, the watchdog moves to the running state but a count interval is not started until a 1 is written to bit 7.
www.microsoft.com /whdc/system/CEC/watchdog.mspx   (1525 words)

  
 Kwakkelflap.com: Tools for the IT Pro
Watchdog – O – Matic gives you a more stable / reliable environment.
Watchdog – O – Matic is perfectly suited to PC’s where user interaction is impossible (remote PC’s, server PC’s, etc).
Even if the watchdog fails, your software will be back running in no time.
www.kwakkelflap.com /watchdog.html   (358 words)

  
 Watchdog Timers
A watchdog timer is a piece of hardware, often built into a microcontroller that can cause a processor reset when it judges that the system has hung, or is no longer executing the correct sequence of code.
If the watchdog bite is due to a bug (would that be a bug bite?) then any other information you can record about the state of the system, or the currently active task will be valuable when trying to diagnose the problem.
The watchdog timeout can be chosen to be the maximum time during which all regular tasks have had a chance to run from their start point through one full loop back to their start point again.
www.embedded.com /2000/0011/0011feat4.htm   (4538 words)

  
 Addiction Treatment Watchdog
Addiction Treatment Watchdog is a resource for educating medication-assisted-treatment patients and others about the disease and treatment of opiate addiction.
A.T. Watchdog would like to hear from patients and providers if they have suggestions about what patients should do when faced with a problem at their clinics.
Watchdog receives dozens of email messages from family and friends of MMT patients trying to find information about the disease of opiate addiction.
www.atwatchdog.org   (516 words)

  
 Switch Management - Products - Switch Watchdog
Switch Watchdog was developed by an international facilities based carrier to monitor real time traffic statistics on their international gateway switches.
Prior to Watchdog, this carrier was relying on trouble tickets and daily printed reports of the previous day's traffic to discover problems on their inbound and outbound routes.
Watchdog's alarm messages are kept brief to allow the use of email-to-pager gateway services that let you receive e-mail on an alphanumeric pager.
www.switchmanagement.com /prod_swd.html   (1476 words)

  
 Poynter Online - Watchdog Culture: Why You Need it, How You Can Build it
Watchdog journalism is at the heart of a newspaper's commitment to public service.
The conference, "Creating A Watchdog Culture: Claiming An Essential Newspaper Role," was called at the request of the American Society of Newspaper Editors and its new president, Rick Rodriguez of the Sacramento Bee, who has made "unleashing the watchdog" the theme for his presidency.
There is a strong business argument for watchdog journalism, based not on short-term profit but on the longer-term idea of being essential in the life of the community.
www.poynter.org /content/content_view.asp?id=82985   (2292 words)

  
 Lehigh Acres Watchdog
The Lehigh Acres Watchdog is committed to providing this news service and featured news columnists on issues affecting the community of Lehigh Acres.
That is why the Lehigh Acres Watchdog exists these public institutions need to be watched, challenged and pushed sometimes so they do not become dysfunctional with one another and wasteful of our community's public dollars.
The Lehigh Acres Watchdog has a new format, and the stories will be web based, but it has been ironic how little in the way of equipment resources has been necessary during the last two years to publish this information.
www.lehighacreswatchdog.com   (669 words)

  
 Windowed Watchdog Enhances µP Supervisors - Maxim/Dallas
Pin-selectable watchdog timers allow the watchdog time-out period to be adjustable, thus allowing more flexibility to meet different processor timing requirements.
To implement a watchdog, the µP is programmed to send pulses to a watchdog timer circuit at specified intervals.
If the watchdog timer (WDT) is not toggled within that time, it sends a pulse to the µP warning that a fault has occurred.
www.maxim-ic.com /appnotes.cfm/appnote_number/1070   (1416 words)

  
 Watchdog (TV series) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Watchdog is a BBC television series that investigates viewers' reports of problematic experiences with traders, retailers, and other companies around the UK.
Watchdog was first shown in 1980 as a weekly slot on BBC1's news magazine programme Nationwide.
Watchdog returned in 1985 as a stand-alone weekly evening programme, presented by Nick Ross with Lynn Faulds Wood, then the consumer expert with the BBC breakfast programme, Breakfast Time.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Watchdog_(TV_series)   (1050 words)

  
 Child Watchdog FAQ - The Questions you want answers to...
In the registered version of the software, if the PC is shut down while the Watchdog is monitoring your system in hidden mode, Watchdog will automatically re-start when the computer is restarted to continue monitoring.
This feature is not enabled in the trial mode, and Watchdog will not start if it was not hidden when the PC is shut down.
Watchdog will then check to see if it was hidden on shutdown, if it was it will start to monitor the system, if not it will exit.
www.child-watchdog.com /faq.html   (715 words)

  
 Webcam Watchdog - Ideal Remote Monitoring Solution for home or business, Remote Surveillance webcam software, windows ...   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
Watchdog can also alert you by emailing you the captured image and play the alarm sound.
Watchdog can alert you when it detects there is no signal from the camera.
Watchdog not only can be used as a web server; it also uploads images captured by your webcam to your web site.
www.webcamsoft.com /en/watchdog.html   (932 words)

  
 Cisco - Troubleshooting Watchdog Timeouts
If a process is longer than it should be, the watchdog timer is used to escape from this process.
The first step to troubleshoot this type of issue is to identify the type of watchdog timeout you are encountering.
If the watchdog timeout continues at this point, there are no Field Notices for your hardware, and if no new module has been recently installed, go ahead and replace the main processor board.
www.cisco.com /warp/public/122/crashes_watchdog_timeout.shtml   (1128 words)

  
 Watchdog
Once Guarddog version 2.0 is released I intend to give Watchdog some much needed attention.
Watchdog is being developed for KDE 2 on Linux under the terms of the General Public Licence (GPL).
Please note that Watchdog is not a firewall itself.
www.simonzone.com /software/watchdog   (232 words)

  
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The USB PC Watchdog board is a small circuit card that mounts inside the PC and monitors a PC for hardware/software lock-ups to ensure maximum system availability.
PC Watchdog timer that can be set from 5 seconds to 1 hour via DIP switch or 1 second to 18 hours via software control.
The PC Watchdog board only requires that you have a open slot available in the PC case and a reset switch.
www.berkprod.com /usb_pc_watchdog.htm   (381 words)

  
 Watchdog: monitor your site | drupal.org   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
The watchdog module monitors your system, capturing system events in a log to be reviewed by an authorized individual at a later time.
The watchdog log is simply a list of recorded events containing usage data, performance data, errors, warnings and operational information.
Administrators should check the watchdog report on a regular basis to ensure their site is working properly.
drupal.org /handbook/modules/watchdog   (265 words)

  
 WatchDog - Watchdog Software, Spying Software | Rhombus Technologies   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
WatchDog software creates a list of all the applications by order of visit per day so that you can monitor who went to which site and when.
That is why WatchDog software or the spying software is a stealth application, designed to work on any platform without the notice of the user.
But use this with caution as it may result in a lot of emails, considering that one email is sent per day from each client.
www.rhombustechnologies.com /main.asp?page=watchdog   (1323 words)

  
 Cisco - Troubleshooting Watchdog Timeouts
If a process is longer than it must be, the watchdog timer is used to escape from this process.
After you identify a software watchdog timeout, the next step is to check the Product Field Notice Summary for your platform and all the components installed in that system for known critical hardware issues.
If a new module has been recently installed, you must first try to remove it to verify whether it is the reason for the watchdog timeout.
www.cisco.com /warp/public/122/crashes_watchdog_timeout.html   (1337 words)

  
 man: watchdog   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
In typical usage, watchdog is launched during the boot process by the Watchdog startup item.
Upon launch, watchdog moves to the background, reads its configuration file, spawns children and waits for their termi- nation.
When a child terminates, watchdog will relaunch it unless the child quit shortly after it was launched, currently defined as ten sec- onds or less.
www.hmug.org /man/8/watchdog.html   (998 words)

  
 Amazon.com: Watchdog (Melanie Travis Mysteries (Paperback)): Books: Laurien Berenson   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
In Watchdog, Frank is asking for much more: he wants his sister to help clear his name when a business associate is murdered.
Watchdog is no exception; watch out for this one and for Melanie's future exploits.
WATCHDOG is a first class piece of entertainment that stars a believable and likable amateur sleuth.
www.amazon.com /Watchdog-Melanie-Travis-Mysteries-Paperback/dp/1575664720   (1898 words)

  
 Watchdog
Family Watchdog is an Internet access service enabling families to have safe Internet access at home without the risks of exposure to inappropriate and damaging material.
Watchdog has been contracted by the Ministry of Education to provide Managed Internet Services to State and State-Integrated schools in New Zealand at no charge.
Corporate Watchdog is an Internet access service designed for companies, private schools and community organisations that want to increase staff productivity and safety by controlling Internet access to employees.
www.watchdog.net.nz   (272 words)

  
 The Watchdog Validation Test Suite   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
The last version released, 4.0, tests the Servlet Specification version 2.3 and the JSP Specification v 1.2: both of these specifications now have newer versions (Servlet 2.4 and JSP 2.0), and there is no Watchdog release to test conformance with these specifications.
The main reason for this status is that Sun has made the official Servlet/JSP TCK (Technology Comptability Kit, the official spec conformance test suite) more easily available to us.
Watchdog is a set of validation tests that can be run against a Servlet 2.3 / JSP 1.2 container (such as Tomcat 4.x) to identify potential problems with conformance to the corresponding specifications.
jakarta.apache.org /watchdog/index.html   (220 words)

  
 Watchdog Home
Watchdogs keep their eyes and ears open on TV, radio, and in magazines for positive or negative ads, and send notices of ads worthy of praise or protest to the National Eating Disorders Association office.
If Watchdogs agree to do so, their names are signed on each letter with those of the National Eating Disorders Association staff and Board of Directors.
Watchdog letters are posted on our web site to keep the group and the public informed of our efforts.
www.nationaleatingdisorders.org /p.asp?WebPage_ID=300   (636 words)

  
 Reliable Internet Monitoring from MyComputer.com
This monitoring service is available to track your web site 24 hours a day, 365 days a year, from locations around the globe.
WatchDog provides advanced web site performance monitoring around the clock at an affordable price.
WatchDog will monitor your site every two, five, or 15 minutes.
watchdog.mycomputer.com   (169 words)

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