Heartbeating

When the connection is lost between the fault adapter and the device, heartbeating allows the probe to determine whether the device is still alive. If the Heartbeat property is set and the target system fails, the probe tries to ping the fault adapter module until it is active again. The probe then reestablishes a connection and starts to acquire alert data again.

If the probe fails to receive any data for any length of time in seconds specified by the HeartbeatInterval property, it pings the fault adapter. If the probe does not receive the ping within HearbeatTimeout seconds, the probe disconnects and switches to reconnection mode if the Retry property is set to true.

If the Retry property is set to false, the probe does not attempt reconnection. The probe disconnects and shuts down.