Heartbeating

Heartbeating allows the TSM to determine whether the device is still alive, when the connection is lost between the DSC DEX system and the device.

If the Heartbeat property is set and the target system fails, the TSM tries to ping the DSC DEX system module until it is active again. The TSM then reestablishes a connection and start to acquire alert data again. If the TSM fails to receive any data for the length of time in seconds specified by the HeartbeatInterval property, it pings the fault adapter. If the TSM fails to receive the ping within HeartbeatTimeout seconds, the TSM disconnects and switches to reconnection mode.