Network Status

[PoLiX]

While the SSC Biller was down I got bored and began thinking of a way to maybe display the status of the biller online. This led me back to an old script I had once began playing with Sockets and UDP to grab zone statuses. Well, through some reading and research I found there is some documentation over the the Server Help Wiki about the Subgame Ping Protocol.

 

It allows you to send a timestamp, and receive a packet containing a timestamp and the current population. So essentially using this, you can determine if the zone is online, and get its current population. So thus I decided maybe a network status page was something I should add to SSO. It was in my original plans, but I never had the time to dwell in it much.

 

You can preview the page here and leave feedback and ideas in the comments section of this post.

 

Thanks and Enjoy.

[»Maverick]

Nice.

 

You can also display the amount of players actually playing for ASSS zones. Same script which you probably already used.

 

It would be nice if you can also display the status of the directory servers by using Doc Flabby's script on one of SubspaceOnline's pages; I've got a copy of it running here.

Edited April 22, 2010 by Maverick

[»freakmonger]

Nice, I like it

[PoLiX]

Actually based mine on the ASSS one so wouldn't be hard.

 

I prefer to understand how something I am using works, so coded my own while researching the methods he used on the php docs. Though found it very useful.

 

As for the directory servers, would probably be a simple tweak to the current code I have to add it in. Might do that this weekend honestly.

[Hakaku]

Is there a way to ping the biller to find out if it's online? If not, it could be achieved by having an asss zone update and forward the status should the biller ever go offline.

 

Anyhow, pretty nifty page.