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Bug 1127483

Summary: [RFE] Add heartbeat or ping option to katello-agent
Product: Red Hat Satellite Reporter: Mike McCune <mmccune>
Component: katello-agentAssignee: David Davis <daviddavis>
Status: CLOSED WONTFIX QA Contact: Katello QA List <katello-qa-list>
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Priority: unspecified    
Version: 6.0.4CC: cduryee, jsherril
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Description Mike McCune 2014-08-06 23:47:48 UTC
The UI/CLI/API all need an accurate way to display if the connection between the client and the server is active.

Either implement a heartbeat or a ping command that could be run manually where the agent could respond to requests for a successful round-trip communication.

This will allow our interface to properly show the status to the user.

Comment 1 David Davis 2014-08-07 11:32:59 UTC
See the conversation in the following PR on how to alter the UI once we have this:

https://github.com/Katello/katello/pull/4515

Comment 2 Justin Sherrill 2016-09-07 18:48:03 UTC
Since goferd-style communication is going away, i'm closing this as rejected