HandPunch Troubleshooting - Revision history

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 If the HandPunch displays '''PLACE HAND''' after the employee enters their clock ID and presses enter, but the HandPunch displays '''TRY AGAIN''' after placing their hand and eventually says '''TEMPORARILY INVALID''', these are the items that you can check:
-* Is the issue limited to this employee, to a few employees, or to most employees? If you as the supervisor can punch and you are getting a '''SCORE''' in the same range that you normally get then this would indicate that the issue is isolated
+* Is the issue limited to this employee, to a few employees, or to most employees? If you as the supervisor can punch and you are getting a '''SCORE''' in the same range that you normally get then this would indicate that the issue is isolated.
-* Is the employee using the correct clock ID? If the employee is using the incorrect clock ID but this clock ID belongs to another employee, then it is not a biometric issue at all (in fact the HandPunch is doing exactly what it should be doing - eliminating buddy punching)
+* Is the employee using the correct clock ID? If the employee is using the incorrect clock ID but this clock ID belongs to another employee, then it is not a biometric issue at all (in fact the HandPunch is doing exactly what it should be doing - eliminating buddy punching).
-* Is the employee using the correct hand placement. This is critical to successful punching. The hand should be placed flat on the platen, with the fingers touching the pins. If a red light is lit, then the person being enrolled is not touching that pin with their finger
+* Is the employee using the correct hand placement. This is critical to successful punching. The hand should be placed flat on the platen, with the fingers touching the pins. If a red light is on, then the person punching is not touching that pin with their finger.
-* Is the wrist visible when punching? If the wrist is not visible then clothing might block the camera from successfully scanning the hand
+* Is the wrist visible when punching? If the wrist is not visible then clothing might block the camera from successfully scanning the hand.
 * Has something changed about the employee's hand? Although the HandPunch adapts to small changes in the hand such as weight loss or gain, major changes such as lengthened or shortened nails may require the employee to be re-enrolled.

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 == Biometric Issues ==
-If the HandPunch displays '''PLACE HAND''' after the employee enters their clock ID and presses enter, if the HandPunch displays '''TRY AGAIN''' after placing their hand and eventually says '''TEMPORARILY INVALID''', these are the items that you can check:
+If the HandPunch displays '''PLACE HAND''' after the employee enters their clock ID and presses enter, but the HandPunch displays '''TRY AGAIN''' after placing their hand and eventually says '''TEMPORARILY INVALID''', these are the items that you can check:
 * Is the issue limited to this employee, to a few employees, or to most employees? If you as the supervisor can punch and you are getting a '''SCORE''' in the same range that you normally get then this would indicate that the issue is isolated

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 == Biometric Issues ==
-If the HandPunch displays '''PLACE HAND''' after the employee entered their clock ID and presses enter, but the HandPunch displays '''TRY AGAIN''' and eventually says '''TEMPORARILY INVALID''', these are the items that you can check:
+If the HandPunch displays '''PLACE HAND''' after the employee enters their clock ID and presses enter, if the HandPunch displays '''TRY AGAIN''' after placing their hand and eventually says '''TEMPORARILY INVALID''', these are the items that you can check:
 * Is the issue limited to this employee, to a few employees, or to most employees? If you as the supervisor can punch and you are getting a '''SCORE''' in the same range that you normally get then this would indicate that the issue is isolated

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 At some point you may encounter employees having issues punching at the HandPunch. Issues at the HandPunch can be categorized as being biometric or non-biometric. Non-biometric issues are easiest to diagnose because the employee is not asked to place their hand.
-After the employees enters their clock ID and presses Enter, the HandPunch should display '''PLACE HAND''' in the display. If the HandPunch beeps twice and the display returns to '''ENTER ID''' then the clock ID entered by the employee is NOT in the HandPunch. Reasons for this may be:
+After the employee enters their clock ID and presses Enter, the HandPunch should display '''PLACE HAND''' in the display. If the HandPunch beeps twice and the display returns to '''ENTER ID''' then the clock ID entered by the employee is NOT in the HandPunch. Reasons for this may be:
 * The employee has not been enrolled
-* The employee is mistakenly using a different number than the number that they were enrolled with
+* The employee is mistakenly using a number that is different from the number that they were enrolled with
-* The employee is not assigned to that time clock in their [[Employee Clock Info|Clock Info]] tab
+* The employee is not assigned to this time clock in their [[Employee Clock Info|Clock Info]] tab
 * The employee is [[Employee Status|inactive]] in the software and so the software is removing their clock ID from the HandPunch
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 * The clock is full and so not all employees that are assigned to the clock are able to be stored in the clock
 == Biometric Issues ==

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 == Communication Issues==
-Communication issues occur when the software cannot communicate to the HandPunch. These troubleshooting steps are for Ethernet communications using an external Ethernet unit (Lantronix UDS-1100). We will refer to this unit as the UDS. If you are using a HandPunch with an internal Ethernet unit then the steps are very similar.
+Communication issues occur when the software cannot communicate to the HandPunch. These troubleshooting steps are for Ethernet communications. The Ethernet unit can be an external Ethernet unit (Lantronix UDS-1100), or an internal Ethernet unit.
 === Network Issue ===
-You first need to establish if the communication error is network based, i.e. there is no communication to the UDS. The software error for network based issues is "Failed to get channel". If you are receiving the error from an email then the email will contain both the host name and the port number being used. If the error occurred when trying to communicate in the software then you can get the UDS address and port number from the [[Time_Clocks_Configuration#Ethernet|Ethernet]] tab in Time Clocks Configuration.
+You first need to establish if the communication error is network based, i.e. there is no communication to the Ethernet. The software error for network based issues is "Failed to get channel". If you are receiving the error from an email then the email will contain both the host name and the port number being used. If the error occurred when trying to communicate in the software then you can get the Ethernet address and port number from the [[Time_Clocks_Configuration#Ethernet|Ethernet]] tab in Time Clocks Configuration.
 * Is the host name an IP address?
-* If it is not then the UDS is remote to the software. At a command prompt use tracert to determine the IP address that the host name is resolving to. If it does not resolve then the host name has either not been updated, or the internet may be down at the remote location.
+* If it is not then the HandPunch is remote to the software. At a command prompt use tracert to determine the IP address that the host name is resolving to. If it does not resolve then the host name has either not been updated, or the internet may be down at the remote location.
-* Is the IP address a public IP address? If it is then the UDS is remote to the software.
+* Is the IP address a public IP address? If it is then the HandPunch is remote to the software.
 * If it is not a public IP address then you will only be able to tell if it is a local address by comparing it to an address from a computer in the network where the software is. If it is not local then a WAN or VPN is being used.
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 The 3 options for the network connectivity are therefore:
-# The UDS and the software are in the same network
+# The HandPunch and the software are in the same network
-# The UDS is in another network which is connected via a WAN or VPN. Check the WAN is up by pinging the other network's gateway?
+# The HandPunch is in another network which is connected via a WAN or VPN. Check the WAN is up by pinging the other network's gateway?
-# The UDS is in another network accessed through the other network's public IP address. In this scenario, port forwarding has been setup. Is the internet working at the remote location?
+# The HandPunch is in another network accessed through the other network's public IP address. In this scenario, port forwarding has been setup. Is the internet working at the remote location?
-If you have access to the local network of the UDS then you should do a ping test, followed by telnet to the listening port. If these both work then there is no issue with local connectivity, so the issue is with the WAN / VPN or the port forwarding. A firewall may also be causing an issue on anything but the local network connectivity.
+If you have access to the local network of the HandPunch then you should do a ping test, followed by telnet to the listening port. If these both work then there is no issue with local connectivity, so the issue is with the WAN / VPN or the port forwarding. A firewall may also be causing an issue on anything but the local network connectivity.
-On the local network side, the following can be checked:
+On the local network side, the following can be checked if you are using the external Ethernet Lantronix UDS-1100 (referred to as UDS):
 * Does the UDS have power?
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 * If you take the UDS to a known good network cable, does the "Failed to get channel" error go away, and you know get COM_TIMEOUT?
 === HandPunch Issue ===
-If you are not getting the "Failed to get channel" error then you are getting a COM_TIMEOUT error. This error means that there is a communication problem somewhere between the UDS and the HandPunch. Check the following:
+If you are not getting the "Failed to get channel" error then you are getting a COM_TIMEOUT error. This error means that there is a communication problem somewhere between the UDS and the HandPunch. This error is only typical with the external Ethernet. Check the following:
 * Does the HandPunch have power?
-* Is the HandPunch on the wall or looks like it had been knocked off the wall. It is possible that the cable is not conencted to the HandPunch
+* Is the HandPunch on the wall or looks like it had been knocked off the wall. It is possible that the cable is not connnected to the HandPunch
 * The cable might also be detached at the UDS end (not likely but worth checking)

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	* The employee was enrolled with a clock ID that was previously used by an employee that is inactive and so the software is removing their clock ID from the HandPunch		* The employee was enrolled with a clock ID that was previously used by an employee that is inactive and so the software is removing their clock ID from the HandPunch
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		+	* The clock is full and so not all employees that are assigned to the clock are able to be stored in the clock

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 == Biometric Issues ==
-If the HandPunch displays PLACE HAND after the employee entered their clock ID and presses enter, but the HandPunch displays TRY AGAIN and eventually says TEMPORARILY INVALID, these are the items that you can check:
+If the HandPunch displays '''PLACE HAND''' after the employee entered their clock ID and presses enter, but the HandPunch displays '''TRY AGAIN''' and eventually says '''TEMPORARILY INVALID''', these are the items that you can check:
-* Is the issue limited to this employee, to a few employees, or to most employees? If you as the supervisor can punch and you are getting a SCORE in the same range that you normally get then this would indicate that the issue is isolated
+* Is the issue limited to this employee, to a few employees, or to most employees? If you as the supervisor can punch and you are getting a '''SCORE''' in the same range that you normally get then this would indicate that the issue is isolated
 * Is the employee using the correct clock ID? If the employee is using the incorrect clock ID but this clock ID belongs to another employee, then it is not a biometric issue at all (in fact the HandPunch is doing exactly what it should be doing - eliminating buddy punching)
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 * Is the wrist visible when punching? If the wrist is not visible then clothing might block the camera from successfully scanning the hand
 * Has something changed about the employee's hand? Although the HandPunch adapts to small changes in the hand such as weight loss or gain, major changes such as lengthened or shortened nails may require the employee to be re-enrolled.
-* If the employee is getting TEMPORARILY INVALID when they try to punch, another employee or yourself needs to punch first before this employee can punch again. If they can now punch successfully then there is nothing to do.
+* If the employee is getting '''TEMPORARILY INVALID''' when they try to punch, another employee or yourself needs to punch first before this employee can punch again. If they can now punch successfully then there is nothing to do.
 * If the employee still has an issue, then you should [[HandPunch Enrollment|remove and re-enroll]] the employee.
-* Some employees will be what is knows as a "bad puncher" in that they are very inconsistent in their use of the HandPunch. You can raise the Threshold in the [[Employee Clock Info|Clock Info]] tab in the range of 200 to 250.
+* Some employees will be what is known as a "bad puncher" in that they are very inconsistent in their use of the HandPunch. You can raise the Threshold in the [[Employee Clock Info|Clock Info]] tab in the range of 200 to 250.
 * If the employee cannot punch because they cannot place their hand flat and make the lights go out (injury, something about their hand limits their movement, missing finger) then you will need to use the No Biometric Verification option in the employee's [[Employee Clock Info|Clock Info]] tab.
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 == Re-enrollment Issue ==
-Please note that the hand templates are typically distributed between all of your HandPunches once an hour. There is a small chance that during the re-enrollment process, you may remove a person from the HandPunch while the hands templates are being distributed back to the HandPunch and by the time you get back to the ADD EMPLOYEE menu, the hand template of the person that you removed has now been restored back to the HandPunch. When you go to enroll, if the displays says SORRY, CAN'T ADD, this indicates that the hand template has been restored. You will need to remove the employee again.
+Please note that the hand templates are typically distributed between all of your HandPunches once an hour. There is a small chance that during the re-enrollment process, you may remove a person from the HandPunch while the hands templates are being distributed back to the HandPunch and by the time you get back to the '''ADD EMPLOYEE''' menu, the hand template of the person that you removed has now been restored back to the HandPunch. When you go to enroll, if the displays says '''SORRY, CAN'T ADD''', this indicates that the hand template has been restored. You will need to remove the employee again.
 == Communication Issues==
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 * Is the host name an IP address?
-** If it is not then the UDS is remote to the software. At a command prompt use tracert to determine the IP address that the host name is resolving to. If it does not resolve then the host name has either not been updated, or the internet may be down at the remote location.
+* If it is not then the UDS is remote to the software. At a command prompt use tracert to determine the IP address that the host name is resolving to. If it does not resolve then the host name has either not been updated, or the internet may be down at the remote location.
-** Is the IP address a public IP address? If it is then the UDS is remote to the software.
+* Is the IP address a public IP address? If it is then the UDS is remote to the software.
-** If it is not a public IP address then you will only be able to tell if it is a local address by comparing it to an address from a computer in the network where the software is. If it is not local then a WAN or VPN is being used.
+* If it is not a public IP address then you will only be able to tell if it is a local address by comparing it to an address from a computer in the network where the software is. If it is not local then a WAN or VPN is being used.
 The 3 options for the network connectivity are therefore:
 # The UDS and the software are in the same network
 # The UDS is in another network which is connected via a WAN or VPN. Check the WAN is up by pinging the other network's gateway?
 # The UDS is in another network accessed through the other network's public IP address. In this scenario, port forwarding has been setup. Is the internet working at the remote location?