Specifications

Kiosk DPSPhoto Operator Manual
March 2006 - v2.2
4. DPS MONITOR
4.1 General
This module checks and manages the activation process and controls the general health of the
other programs. It also manages communication with the DPS Server if the Kiosk is ONLINE.
Backups, remote jobs, VPN Initialize, remote upgrades are also handled from the DPS Monitor
program. To summarize, this module is in charge of:
VPN Initialize.
Management of system activation.
Launching of all DPS Applications in the right order at system start-up
Control of the general status of DPS Applications
Running and closing of all DPS applications
Management of communications with DPS Server. It includes:
o Report the Incidents related to hardware malfunction (every 67 minutes)
o Report the activity of all finished operations (every 120 minutes)
o Report the Status of DPS Applications and devices (every 10 minutes)
o Reception of software upgrades (checked every 61 minutes)
o Reception of remote jobs for DPSPhoto Application (checked every 59 minutes)
Update management policy
Management of backup and restore policies
Programme equipment restart at a given time.
The operator can access the DPS Monitor from the Kiosk Kernel operator menu
The screen below shows the main window of the DPS Monitor.
Application name and version columns identify installed applications and their current
version.