Script / Tracker repeat

I am running the below script which seems to be doing its job to a certain extent.
Once the script runs and the sim fails over, the tracker does not restart its timer until the tracker has changed to up.
What I am after is for the script to run as below, but to keep running the ping tests and if the tracker fails over but stays down for another 15 minutes to run again, and then again after another 15 minutes and keep repeating every 15 minutes until the tracker changes to up.
So the unit is swapping the sim every 15 minutes until it receives a signal. This is because one sim may run out of data allowance and the 2nd sim may have no signal.
no track 2 ip sla 20 reachability
no ip sla 20
no event manager applet SimFailover
track 2 ip sla 20 reachability
delay down 180 up 180
ip sla 20
icmp-echo 8.8.8.8 source-interface Vlan1
frequency 30
ip sla schedule 20 life forever start-time after 00:15:00
event manager applet SimFailover
event track 2 state down
action 1.0 syslog msg "No connectivity, failing over sim"
action 0.1 cli command "enable"
action 0.2 cli command "show cellular 0 security"
action 0.3 regexp "Active SIM = ([0-9])" $_cli_result match sim
action 0.4 if $sim eq 0
action 0.5 cli command "cellular 0 lte sim activate slot 1"
action 1.1 else
action 1.2 cli command "cellular 0 lte sim activate slot 0"
action 1.3 end

What you should do is have your track down applet install another applet that actually does the swapping:
event manager environment q "
event manager environment cr $_cli_result
event manager environment s $sim
event manager applet SimFailover
event track 2 state down
action 001 cli command "enable"
action 002 cli command "config t"
action 003 cli command "event manager applet SimTimer"
action 004 cli command "event timer watchdog time 900"
action 005 cli command "action 0.1 cli command enable"
action 006 cli command "action 0.2 cli command $q show cellular 0 security$q"
action 007 cli command "action 0.3 regexp $q ?Active SIM = ([0-9])$q $cr match sim"
action 008 cli command "action 0.4 if $s eq 0
action 009 cli command "action 0.5 cli command $q cellular lte sim activate slot 1$q"
action 010 cli command "action 1.0 syslog msg $q No connectivity, failing over sim$q"
action 011 cli command "action 1.1 else"
action 012 cli command "action 1.2 cli command $q cellular lte sim activate slot 0$q"
action 013 cli command action 1.3 end"
action 014 cli command "end"
event manager applet SimTrackUp
event track 2 state up
action 1.0 cli command "enable"
action 2.0 cli command "config t"
action 3.0 cli command "no event manager applet SimTimer"
action 4.0 cli command "end"

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filehandler UTL_FILE.FILE_TYPE;
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from Course a, Faculty c
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c.Student_First_Name, c.Student_Last_Name, b.Cohort_Number, d.birth_date
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AND
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and
( c.Identification_number = d.Identification_number )
and
( d.Identification_number = b.Identification_number )
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I upgraded the firmware to .03.0, but the behavior persists. 'Play Mode' is set to 'Shuffle'. I took it off 'Shuffle Repeat', but that didn't change anything.

Hi Folks,
It appears that taking the lock off does not help. I was unable to repeat what I reported earlier about any given track not repeating itself if the player is unlocked. It does not matter if I queue a genre or playlist or the numbers of tracks, tracks repeat every 3 to 8 songs. I just experienced a fluke when a track did not repeat itself before. Guess what! I came across two other bugs. Once, the information of a song being displayed was not what was playing. The tags did not match the current song. Also, for whatever reason, my time and date were reset. I did nothing to change the date and time. It was set for February (I think) of 2009. PLEASE CREATIVE LABS! PLEASE FIX THESE BUGS SOON!

A LOT of iTunes broken links/tracks after Music folder move...

So yeah, I'm getting a TON of broken links / dead track links in iTunes after having to do two things to my iTunes install recently and I'm at wits end trying to fix it.
I keep my iTunes Music Folder on an external and share the iTunes library between my work Macbook Pro and my home Macbook. Every Friday I drag my iTunes folder and all contents from my MBP onto an external and replace the iTunes folder on the 'weekend' MB, then do the same back on Monday. I keep my iTunes music 'View' as 'Date Added' so that I can always be listening to whatever is newest. It's how I roll.
Well, this week I had some data problems during the transfer and had to use a previous week's iTunes Music Folder, which was fine as I hadn't added much this week.
I also got a new external because the old one was getting a little shady, so after doing the iTunes Music Folder replacement I moved my music all over to a new external drive, told iTunes where it all was at. iTunes did it's thing, 'organized' my stuff and all seemed good - until I got back deeper into the catalogue of music and started getting a LOT of broken tracks. The songs are still there, in the correct folders and all, but for some reason iTunes isn't finding them.
When I say a LOT, I mean so far it's hundreds of my 13,000 songs.
Now I COULD use the 'Super Remove Dead Tracks' script from Doug's to find all the broken files then re-add the whole library, but it will add all the old songs out of order because they will get a new 'Added' date.
I could also manually move thru my whole library holding down the arrow key for 'Next' to find all the broken links then go thru, select them, and use the 'iTunes Track CPR' script from Doug's to re-add them to the library with ratings intact, but still they will be out of order time-wise.
I cannot find a script that will parse my library, find broken links, and re-associate them with their tracks, nor can I figure out why this happened and any other way to fix it. Repairing permissions hasn't helped. Any other ideas?

Just to follow up with a more comprehensive example of looping through a Library to detect & repair "missing" file-tracks:
<pre>
property kErrAENoSuchObject:(-1728)
on run
tell (application "iTunes")
set theLibraryPlaylist to (first library playlist)
tell theLibraryPlaylist
set theNumCandidateFileTracks to (count (every file track))
repeat with i from 1 to theNumCandidateFileTracks by 1
-- Get a reference to this file-track
set thisFileTrackRef to (file track i)
-- Get this file-track's info (useful for debugging, etc.)
set thisArtist to (artist of thisFileTrackRef)
set thisAlbum to (album of thisFileTrackRef)
set thisName to (name of thisFileTrackRef)
set thisFileTrackInfo to (thisArtist & " > " & thisAlbum & " > " & thisName)
-- Display a diagnostic message every 500th file-track
if ((i mod 500) = 0) then
tell me
display dialog ("Checking file-track #" & i & ": " & ¬
return & return & thisFileTrackInfo) ¬
buttons {"Cancel", "•"} giving up after 2.5
end tell -- me
end if
-- Retrieve this file-track's target file (an AS 'alias' object), if any
-- {!!! NOTE: Due to a bug in iTunes 7.x+ (esp. when downloading), AS might
-- be unable to access the 'location' field of some file-tracks !!!}
try
set thisFileTrackTargetFile to (location of thisFileTrackRef)
on error errMsg2 number errNum2
-- Check whether it's that bizarre error: (-1728) "Can't get location of …"
if (errNum2 = (kErrAENoSuchObject of me)) then
-- Set up to just skip this track (assume it's being downloaded)
set thisFileTrackTargetFile to (anything) -- (Other than 'missing value')
else (* Re-signal all other errors *)
error errMsg2 number errNum2
end if
end try
-- Check whether this file-track is "missing" its target file
if (thisFileTrackTargetFile = (missing value))
-- Inform the user
tell me
display dialog ("Repairing this missing file-track: " & ¬
return & return & thisFileTrackInfo) ¬
buttons {"Cancel", "•"} giving up after 2.5
end tell -- me
-- Set up this target file's new pathname (e.g., via explicit user input, or
-- better yet automatically reconstructed from this file-track's tags such
-- as Artist, Album, Name, Kind, etc.)
-- ... Translate this file-track's kind into a filename-extension
set thisKind to (kind of thisFileTrackRef)
set thisNameExt to "m4a" -- ... Default
if ({thisKind} is in {("Protected AAC audio file")}) then -- Older DRM'd file
set thisNameExt to "m4p"
else if ({thisKind} is in {("MPEG audio file")}) then -- MP3
set thisNameExt to "mp3"
else if (thisKind contains "movie file") then -- E.g., interactive booklet
set thisNameExt to "mov"
end -- (thisKind = "MPEG audio file") ... else if ... else ...
-- ... Auto-build this target file's new pathname
set thisTargetFileNewPathname to ("New Disk:New Path:" & ¬
thisArtist & ":" & thisAlbum & ":" & thisName & "." & thisNameExt)
-- Assign this new target file (as an AS 'alias' object) to this file-track
-- (This is the crucial step that was impossible in older versions of iTunes!)
set (location of thisFileTrackRef) to (alias thisTargetFileNewPathname)
end if -- (thisFileTrackTargetFile = (missing value))
end repeat -- with i from 1 to theNumCandidateFileTracks by 1
end tell -- theLibraryPlaylist
end tell -- (application "iTunes")
end run
</pre>
Regards,
--P

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