Geneos - how to compare two dates and display the difference on the Active Console

You can achieve this in gateway rules with parseDate() function. You can try the following steps:

Steps:

Create a gateway rule with the Target XPath pointing to a blank cell
Add path aliases for the two cells that you would want to compare
Convert both of their time values into epoch time by using the parseDate() function, and calculate their difference
Update with the value statement. The result is in number of seconds.

Refer to below screenshot:

Gateway Rule Code Block

Path Alias

Dataview

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