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I notice that after a job execution has completed, BP keeps pinging the machine endlessly. I think it tries to make sure that the machine is alive, but I have not used a job which is supposed to do that.
Anyway, is it possible to have it stop pinging after some time?
There are a few things to consider…
If you reboot a target computer, BatchPatch will automatically start pinging it at the beginning of the reboot. And then BatchPatch will automatically stop pinging it when it comes back online, if there were X number of ping timeouts before it came back online, where X is defined under ‘Tools > Settings > Ping Status Alerts > Hosts are considered offline after X ping timeouts.’ The default value is 3, and it’s what should be used for most situation. However, in some cases if you are rebooting a virtual machine, the machine can reboot SO quickly that it’s back online before there were ever 3 timeouts. You can change this value to 2, if you want, and that might take care of it. But you don’t want it to be too low because then anytime there are two ping failures in a row, if a third ping is successful, BP will stop pinging the target. So generally we recommend leaving it at 3, but for VM environments 2 might be a better option.
If you manually started pinging the machine or you used “Start pinging” from within your job queue, then you might need to manually stop pinging the machine yourself. But even if you didn’t manually start the ping you can still always add “Stop pinging” to the end of your job queue, if desired.
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