Yves Glodt wrote: > Hi, > > I need to write a heartbeat solution to monitor some external clients, > and what is different as in the examples that I have seen so far is that > I want my central server to poll the clients, and not the clients > "pinging" the central server. > > In detail I need a daemon on my central server which e.g. which in a > loop pings (not really ping but you know what I mean) each 20 seconds > one of the clients. > > The only thing the client has to do is to accept the connection. > (optionally sending back some bytes). If it refuses it is assumed to be > offline. > > My central server, and this is important, should have a short timeout. > If one client does not respond because it's offline, after max. 10 > seconds the central server should continue with the next client. > > > Which python functions would be the most convenient for this application? > > Best regards, > Yves
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