How to concretely SOLVE the orphan problem

[Silvester2]

hi,

I'm getting a random orphan device every week or so. I know how to resolve these incidents. But is there maybe a structural solution to this? the existing devices keep getting orphaned once in a while. It's quite beginning to do my head in. to keep getting email notifications about a unreachable orphan, and then having to solve the problem on a server in france over a 256 kbit line.

I hope there is a structural solution to prevent this from happening.

Does anybody know a solution?

Cheers,

Silvester

[Preston Gallwas]

By orphan do you mean false positive reports that your server is down due to slow connections?

I know since our WAN links are rather flakey at times, I set the pings to 10 retries, 10s timeout. A link has to be unreachable for 100seconds before an e-mail is generated.

[Silvester2]

No, with Orphan i mean that the server or Management board's name becomes "Orphan_xxx" where the xxx stands for a randomized number. Also the object loses it's IP address.

It's a common problem, and there is a good working solution for it. But my servers and ILO's keep getting Orphaned.. I'm hoping for a structural fix..

Yours,

Silvester