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FW: [ECS] Error in ECS.LOG Michael David Tue, 25 Aug 1998 22:01:23 -0400

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Hi Mark and Dan!

I downloaded the new Beta version of ECS, and ECS is now showing which item
state-change packets ACE is not responding to.

Here's what I THINK is happening:

As I mentioned in a previous email, ECS was giving me this error when ACE
was doing a "bulk update" of the status of all monitored ECS items.  ACE
does this by sending an "I" command to ECS for each item ACE is set up to
monitor.

In my case, I have 300 or so items to update, which, if I wasn't seeing the
errors, would probably take about 2 minutes to go through.  As it is now,
because of the errors, it takes about four minutes.

So, after clicking on "Update" in ACS' ECS config window, ACE then goes
through and requests the status of  each item, and ECS responds to each
request.  But, while this is going on, other ECS items are changing states,
and ECS immediately sends the status of those items to ACE.  But, since ACE
is still busy going through it's entire list, it misses these status-change
packets, and ECS reports the error.

Make sense?

So Dan, is there a way for ACE to accept, and respond to, state-change
packets while going through an update?

Cheers!

Michael David
michael@michaeldavid.com


-----Original Message-----
From:	Mark Gilmore [mailto:markgilmore@cococo.net]
Sent:	Tuesday, August 25, 1998 11:47 AM
To:	ecs-list@vancouver.ml.org
Subject:	Re: [ECS] Error in ECS.LOG

Michael, The redac is unrelated - I failed to service (log) the error, and
so it "fell into" other logic. I corrected this in the beta that I am about
to upload. It will at least report the real item invlolved.
The error means that the client is not responding to a state-change packet.
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Mark Gilmore
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