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prober



PURPOSE

Asynchronous probe daemon.

SYNTAX


          +------------+
prober ---|            |---|
          +- interval -+


DESCRIPTION

At regular intervals, the prober command issues a probe to sites believed to be
up.  The result is to determine whether any of the sites believed to be in the
current partition have gone down.  Generally normal activity to a site would
detect the site failure but under some conditions a site might not be actively
involved and therefore artificial traffic is necessary to detect a failure.
The interval is the optional argument (in seconds) and will default to 60 if
not specified.

The prober command disconnects itself from the invoking shell by doing an
internal fork before starting its main activity.

This is not intended to be used by anyone other than the system administrator.

RELATED INFORMATION

See the following command:  "probe."




















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