On Wed, 29 Aug 2007 17:10:38 -0500 Mike Walter said: > >Couldn't the stack design be changed to provide some sort of >communications (even SMSG) that tells the stack that "I'm busy... PLEASE >Chuckie, don't force me"? > >If the start-up exit (or whatever) is coded to issue "I'm busy - maybe >with a site-defined status indicator" at regular intervals, the problem is >solved. No need to even tell the stack "I'm all done now, start normal >monitoring." > >Mike Walter >Hewitt Associates >Any opinions expressed herein are mine alone and do not necessarily >represent the opinions or policies of Hewitt Associates.
Or allow the server to tell the stack via SMSG to ignore stop monitoring this server for active port connections for xx seconds. Kind of like excluding this server from the list of servers that the stack keeps an eye on for a predefined number of seconds. That ensures that the server doesn't exclude itself and then dies trying to do what it is.
