[atlas]too many disconnects?

Hi,

On 2011.03.04. 14:26, Wilfried Woeber, UniVie/ACOnet wrote:
> [my apologies to the Team for the duplicate, I 1st picked the wrong address]
> 
> 
> Q to the Team and to the Probe Hosts:
> 
> 
> My feeling is that the probes do register too many "disconnects".
> I just had a look at the two under my control and the numbers of transitions
> are -
> 
> 466: 25 events between 2010-12-21 07:14:30 UTC and 2011-03-01 10:24:11 UTC
> 414: 25 events between 2010-11-22 12:31:02 UTC and 2011-02-20 20:18:24 UTC
> 
> While there may be a local reason for some of the down-periods, I doubt
> that I had so many outages on my ends. Is anyone else seeing a similar
> pattern?

Disconnects and reconnects are expected; the probes are somewhat sensitive
in this regard. Most of these downtimes should be less than 5, at most 10
minutes. This is normal, don't worry about them.

> Regarding presentation, again, could we please have an additional item of
> "Total Downtime" (next to the "Total Uptime"), and the duration of the downs
> in the 25 lines with the time stamps? This would make it much more straight-
> forward to spot patterns....

Yes, this is in fact already working in our test environment! ETA for public
rollout is next week.

> Minor cosmetics, relevant when reporting stuff, could the probe's number
> be displayed somewhere in the Probe Conf panel (e.g. in the line with the
> Firmware Version)?

Sure.

Cheers,
Robert

> Thanks for your consideration,
> have a nice weekend
> Wilfried