It is there to assist in problem resolution, and not as a replacement for more accurate measures. For example, because reports are generated at 10 minute intervals, they can lag the actual status of a service. By design, the most useful is the current overall status. In general, service outages are short-lived and older information is not particularly interesting in this context. Various scripts are run on Network Services machine every ten minutes which simulate actual attempts to connect to various services.
Care is taken to avoid race conditions, and to avoid adding heavy loads to services.
The CSSR is generated automatically at 10 minute intervals. Since the refresh is relative to the time at which the first status page is downloaded, updates are not tightly synchronized, however the refresh still insures that the page remains not more than 5 minutes old. It operates in the same manner as the CSSR, but focuses only on the campus modem pool. Copyright 1995, University of Oregon .