I have a perl script running on a Windows PC that calls an external batch job. The batch jobs takes several hours to complete. I am trying to implement an extra security measure to check the progress of the batch job by taking a periodic count of how many records have been processed in a given time period and see if that corresponds to an average rate.
I'm intending to notify a seperate machine once the process has started. The only idea I have for the periodic checking is to use Windows Scheduler but I'm not sure I want to do that! Has anybody any ideas of a perl script that can do anything like this?