[atlas]trying to collect basic info about the architecture

On 2011.01.05. 11:43, Jelte wrote:
> On 01/05/2011 11:29 AM, Robert Kisteleki wrote:
>>> Currently there is no way for users to reboot a probe other then
>>> disconnecting power. If this is a capability that people would like to
>>> have, we could look into ways we could make that happen.
> 
>> This makes me wonder: what problem would this solve? You obviously couldn't
>> use this feature if the probe was down, only if it was up; but then why
>> would you want to reboot it? :-)
> 
> 
> Well, there have been several cases of probes being up but not reporting any
> data. At least one of those cases was solved by a reboot :)

Good point, but that's not the expected behavior :-)

> Of course fixing all the issues that causes such behaviour is the ultimate goal,
> but since every piece of code contains at least one bug, i can see some use for
> such a feature for those people having their probes not in an easily reachable
> location.

I agree, but my argument is that in normal circumstances this isn't useful.
Also, we can always force probes to reconnect (by kicking them out from the
server side).

Besides, if we implemented this feature, we'd have less incentives to solve
the bugs :-)

Cheers,
Robert

> Having some form of remote control over one's usb power would also do the trick ;)
> 
> Jelte