Unavailable Hosts

Unavailable Hosts

FolderMaestro File Collaboration is designed to be run in an environment where all participating hosts are highly available, and on highly available networks.  If a host becomes unavailable during a file collaboration session, the host may be taken out of the file collaboration session if the host is unreachable within the configured timeout period specified in the General Settings.  If no response is received during any file collaboration activity within the timeout period, then the host will be pinged, and if still no response, the host will be taken out of the running session and a FATAL event will be logged and the Host Participant Table status field will be updated to indicate that the host has failed.  In addition, if Email Alerts are configured and enabled for Host Timeouts alerts, then an alert email  will be sent.

You will need to Stop and Start the file collaboration session in order to bring any failed hosts back into the session.  As a result all Root Folders on all hosts will need to be scanned again to detect any inconsistencies.  Therefore, if you are operating over a WAN with low bandwidth you will want to set the timeout to a higher value.

Quorum

In order for a file collaboration session to run correctly, a quorum of available hosts must be met.  Quorum is currently set to at least 2 hosts, and if quorum is not met then the collaboration session will automatically be terminated, and if Email Alerts are configured and enabled for Session Abort alerts, then an alert email will be sent.