ProbeWatch messages

During normal operations, the probe generates ProbeWatch messages and sends them to the ObjectServer. These messages tell the ObjectServer how the probe is running.

The following table describes the ProbeWatch messages that the probe generates. For information about generic Netcool/OMNIbus ProbeWatch messages, see the IBM Tivoli Netcool/OMNIbus Probe and Gateway Guide.

Table 1. ProbeWatch messages
ProbeWatch message	Description	Triggers/causes
`Connection attempted ... (host,port)`	The probe is trying to establish a connection to the host.	The probe is trying to establish a connection to the host.
`Connection failed ... (host,port)`	The probe failed to establish a connection to the host.	General connection failure due either to an incorrect setting of the Host or Port properties, or to the host refusing a connection request from the probe.
`Connection lost ... (host,port)`	The probe lost the connection to the host.	The device has dropped the connection to the probe.
`Connection succeeded ... (host,port)`	The probe successfully established a connection to the host.	The probe successfully established a connection to the host.
`Discarding on read failure buffer`	The probe discarded a partially read event from its buffer following a read failure.	The probe is unable to finish reading an event due to a problem with the connection to the device. The device might have dropped the connection to the probe.
`Discarding on timeout buffer`	The probe discarded a partially read event from its buffer following a read timeout.	While reading a line of the event, the probe could not find the end-of-line terminator within the time period specified by the ReadTimeout property. This is due to a slow or busy network, or to the value specified by the ReadTimeout property being set too low.
`Disconnected from system due to shutdown signal`	The probe disconnected from the host.	A shutdown signal was sent to the probe.
`Disconnecting from system due to Inactivity alarm ... (host,port)`	The probe disconnected from the device.	The device was silent for the period specified by the Inactivity property. If you want the probe to time out less frequently, increase the value of the Inactivity property.
`Disconnection attempted ... (host,port)`	The probe is attempting to disconnect from the host.	The probe is shutting down or has lost the connection.
`Disconnection failed ... (host,port)`	The probe failed to disconnect cleanly from the host.	The memory location where the connection details are stored has been corrupted.
`Disconnection succeeded ... (host,port)`	The probe disconnected from the host.	The probe shut down or lost the connection.
`Failed to get events`	A problem occurred while receiving events.	Either there was a problem initializing the connection due to insufficient memory or, if this message was sent after some events had been parsed, there was a license failure or a connection failure.
`Failed to get license ... (host,port)`	The probe is unable to obtain a license for the connection to the host.	Either the license server is down or there are insufficient licenses in the server.
`Going Down`	The probe is shutting down.	The probe is shutting down after performing the shutdown routine.
`Have lost all connections -going down`	The probe is shutting down because all of its connections have been deactivated.	The probe has reached the reconnection attempt limit specified by the ReconnectionAttempts property.
`License failure -going down`	The license server could not be reached.	Either the license has expired, the license server has gone down, or the connection to the license server has been lost.
`Login attempted ... (host,port)`	The probe is trying to log in to the host.	The probe is trying to log in to the host.
`Login failed ... (host,port)`	The probe failed to log in to the host.	The probe encountered a problem while logging in. Check that the ChatinString property is specified correctly.
`Login succeeded ... (host,port)`	The probe logged in to the host.	The probe logged in to the host.
`Logout attempted ... (host,port)`	The probe is trying to log out from the host.	The probe has received a command to shut down.
`Logout failed ... (host,port)`	The probe failed to log out from the host.	The probe encountered a problem while logging out. Check that the ChatoutString property is specified correctly.
`Logout succeeded ... (host,port)`	The probe logged out from the host.	The probe logged out from the host.
`Running ...`	The probe is running normally.	The probe has just been started.