
Avaya Media Processing Server Series System Reference Manual
Page 238 # P0602477 Ver: 3.1.11
Monitoring Host Connections
If the event of a host process failure, the kernel on the host machine notifies VTCPD,
which in turn sends a hostdown condition to applications. However, VTCPD is not
notified if the entire host machine crashes or if the LAN connection is broken. To
detect this situation, VTCPD should query the host periodically with a ping
command. If a reply is not received in a specified amount of time, VTCPD then
determines that the host is down.
vtcpd -T <timeout>[:<ping-len>] -h len:<str>
Args: -T <timeout>
[:<ping-sec>]
Specifies that a ping message is to be sent to the
host every ping-seconds. (The default is 1.) If a
reply is not received within timeout number of
seconds, the host is deemed to be down.
-h len:<str> Specifies the format of the ping message. For
message formats using delimiters or length
headers (see Message Format on page 227) the
length of the ping message may be equal to zero
(in which case, only the header or delimiter is sent
to the host. The str option is ignored). For fixed-
length format, the length of the ping message
cannot be zero, but may be smaller than the length
of the message specified by the -f option. If str
is not specified, the ping message is filled with
ASCII '0' (e.g., -h4, -h4:0 and
-h4:0000 are equivalent). To specify an
unprintable character, the hexadecimal
representation (0xXX) should be used.
Examples: vtcpd -T 30:10 -h 4:0x00
Generates a ping message every 10 seconds with a total timeout of 30
seconds. The message consists of four binary zeroes.
vtcpd -T 20:5 -h 4:A0x410x42B
Generates a ping message every 5 seconds with a total timeout of 20
seconds. The message is the string "AABB".
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