[Spacewalk-list] OSAD connection retries

[Jan Pazdziora]

On Tue, Mar 20, 2012 at 08:38:58AM +0100, Pierre Casenove wrote:
> Hello list,
> 
> I ran into the following issue:
> - due to scheduled downtime on spacewalk server, jabberd process was
> not running.
> - On the clients logs, here is what I see:
> # cat /var/log/osad
> 2012-03-16 15:04:09 jabber_lib.main: Unable to connect to jabber
> servers, sleeping 119 seconds
> 2012-03-16 15:06:08 jabber_lib.main: Unable to connect to jabber
> servers, sleeping 70 seconds
> 2012-03-16 15:07:18 jabber_lib.main: Unable to connect to jabber
> servers, sleeping 106 seconds
> 2012-03-16 15:09:04 jabber_lib.main: Unable to connect to jabber
> servers, sleeping 113 seconds
> 
> An after that, no more logs on the client. OSAD process is running,
> but the client is shown as offline in spacewalk. I restart osad, and
> it works well.
> I didn't change anything in osad.conf file
> My guess is the osad, after 4 conenctions retries, gave up connecting.
> 
> Is it a normal behavior? Or should I put more verbose logging on the
> clients to see what happens exactly?

Yes, we would like to see more verbose log output.

Thank you,

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Jan Pazdziora
Principal Software Engineer, Satellite Engineering, Red Hat