Re: polling consoles

I have this same problem with the console client.  We have been
embedding conserver and rebooting our embedded devices often.  So when
someone reboots a device console does not know of that connection death.


On Tue, 2002-10-22 at 10:46, Corey Hirschman wrote:
> I was wondering if there is any way for conserver to test the connection
> between itself and the consoles it is aware of.
> 
> We run into a problem that if a terminal server goes down unexpectedly,
> conserver will not realize that the TCP connections have been broken and
> will keep them marked as up.  The terminal server, once back up, no
> longer knows about the connections so none of the console messages are
> put into the logs, until conserver is either restarted or an explicit
> connection is made to each machine.
> 
> A similar problem occurs if one of the nodes in our cluster crashes. 
> Once it is fixed and brought back up, conserver does not kill the bad
> connection and reestablish a connection with the node until an explicit
> connection is made to the node.
> 
> I know this popped up on the list about a year ago and at that time
> there was nothing that could be done within conserver.  I was wondering
> if there is now a way to monitor connection status and if not get
> suggestions as to how to best implement it.
> 
> Corey
> 
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