Requesting XCF Status Monitoring

By identifying a status user routine to XCF, members can request that XCF monitor their activity. In general, XCF status monitoring works as follows:

XCF monitors the member's activity by regularly checking a status field that the member identifies.
The member also identifies a status-checking interval. When XCF detects that the member did not update its status field within the status-checking interval, XCF schedules the member's status user routine.
By scheduling the status user routine, XCF gives the routine the opportunity to:
- Check the member and determine whether the member is operating normally
- Decide whether to notify other members if the member is not operating normally.

XCF's actions are limited to checking the status field and scheduling the status user routine, unless the status user routine requests notification to other members, or the status user routine does not run.

This topic contains information on the following topics related to XCF status monitoring:

Using a status user routine
Updating the status field
Setting and changing a status-checking interval
Coding a status user routine.