Backoff Strategy

Backoff strategy is used when the probe fails to establish a connection or loses an existing connection to the device.

The probe tries to reestablish a connection after one second, two seconds, then four seconds, and so on, up to a maximum of 4096 seconds. Once the connection is made to the specified port, the probe tries to log in to the device. If the probe fails to log in, the probe will move on to log in to the next device in the list (if available) and apply the same backoff strategy to retry the failed log in.

The backoff strategy remains in place until a successful login occurs. The user can also specify a reconnection interval using the ReconnectionInterval property or -reconnectioninterval command line option. When this property is enabled, the probe reconnects at the specified time interval instead of using the backoff strategy. If the connection is terminated by the remote host, the connection is also closed by the probe on the host machine.