It is official, as of the publication in the Official Gazette of the recent Resolution No. 20221200013634 published by Coljuegos, by which the document of Technical Requirements for the Online Connection System for SCLM+ Electronic Slot Machines is issued, the authorized operators with a current contract will have a period of up to 12 months to implement the conditions adopted in the same document.
It is worth noting that the new online connection system for METs, hereinafter SCLM+, is a software solution, custom developed, that allows the operator to capture information from the METs to be sent to the Coljuegos System.
It is made up of three subsystems:
- Information Management Sub System.
- Security Sub System.
- Monitoring and Reporting Sub-System.
According to its technical requirements, Coljuegos will provide a web service with a REST-type interface, the details of which will be published on the entity's web page under the name "Detailed specification document of Web Service consumption and list of response messages.pdf". The purpose of this interface will be to receive the information to be transmitted by the operator to Coljuegos under an XML structure.
REST is an interface to connect several systems based on the HTTP protocol (one of the oldest and most reliable protocols in software development) and serve to obtain and generate data and operations, returning those data in very specific formats. Many companies such as Twitter, Facebook, Google, Netflix, LinkedIn and thousands of startups and enterprises use REST technology.
On the other hand, some possible situations that may arise with this new system that should be taken into account by the operator are highlighted, such as:
- In the event of new developments of Withdrawal, Addition, Transfer or Replacement being submitted to Coljuegos, the machines must start the information report applying these new developments, after ensuring that the corresponding procedure is completed and they are applied to the Coljuegos Inventory.
- In the event that an authorized MET registered in the inventory is not in service for any reason, the last capture or capture of the counters and the corresponding record of the significant event defined must be reported.
- In the event of a significant event affecting the meters, as many MET records must be reported in the file as events occurring during the day with their respective meters and additionally filling in the code of the defined event and the fields "Date and Time Event" in these records.
Finally, each and every one of the aspects described in this document and applicable to the SCLM+ software, shall be subject to certification by one of the laboratories endorsed by Coljuegos, for such purpose, the laboratory in its report must make reference to compliance with the following aspects:
1. Regulations applicable to the report.
Verification of the conditions of the Security Sub System, specifically those associated to the impossibility of modifying, adjusting, rewriting or altering data originated by the MET and stored in the SCLM + 3.
Verification of the subroutine for sending automatic information without manual intervention from the SCLM+ to the Coljuegos System.
4. Verification of the capacity of the SCLM+ software to automatically include the SHA - 1 (Secure Hash Algorithm) codes, generated by a security subroutine, on the critical files reported to the laboratory during the software certification process, in the defined Web service model.
The certification will be valid for 2 years from the issuance of the report.
