This is because once the Agent's Server polling thread detects the Server has come up, it (or some other agent class that is a listener of the server polling thread) should either: 1) tell the PC it needs to restart or: 2) tell the PC to do an inventory sync, i.e. call inventoryManager.handleReport(new InventoryReport(inventoryManager.getAgent()))
Otherwise, if the PC is out-of-sync, it will not sync itself up until the next scheduled discovery scan is run (since after every discovery scan, the PC performs a sync). This can take up to 15 minutes (the default server scan interval). --- (01:35:46 PM) jshaughn: ips, if we make a change like that I'd recommend a full PC restart so we don't cut any corners (01:36:39 PM) jshaughn: it only happens when a server comes up, not very frequent at all (01:36:55 PM) ips: jshaughn: here's the stack for the server side exception: http://pastebin.com/qXnL6iFE (01:38:03 PM) ips: jshaughn: perhaps, though that could cause a bunch of NPE's in the agent log, unless my new graceful shutdown flag is enabled in the PC config :} (01:38:35 PM) ips: and graceful shutdown can take anywhere from 15 to 90 seconds (01:39:19 PM) ips: besides no NPE's, just doing the sync will be quicker and take care of the issue at hand (01:39:32 PM) jshaughn: well, then the sync needs to complete before messages are sent, or we get the same problem (01:40:49 PM) jshaughn: although even an avail report should be unlikely, once reported avail changes are few and far between in prod scenarios (01:41:29 PM) ips: well sync only takes a couple seconds typically (01:42:21 PM) ips: well, let me create 2 bz's - one for the agent side issue and one for the avail insert issue (01:43:16 PM) mazz: all I know is - getting the agent startup (with the fact that we have the comm layer, an independent PC that knows nothing about the comm or even a server) and this fact we need to register and CONNECT as the very first thing) is hard to get right. (01:43:44 PM) mazz: what I'm trying to say is, this wn't be trivial to understand all the ramifications of any changes here (01:44:42 PM) jshaughn: mazz, I agree. I hate making changes in this area. And given that, I change my mind to just perform a sync if we do anything at all.