Hopefully you can just have the firewall updated to allow communication through the ports that STAF uses (6500, 6550 by default).
Note that more recent versions of STAF would have given you a better error in this scenario, something like: $ STAF <remote_ip> SEM REQUEST MUTEX test Error submitting request, RC: 16 Additional info --------------- An error occurred when the SEM service on machine 'remote_ip' attempted to register for garbage collection notification on endpoint 'ssl:// <your-local-machine>@6550'. Reason: STAFConnectionProviderConnect: Error resolving host name: Unknown host name: <your-local-machine>, gethostbyname_r(): 22, Endpoint: ssl://<your-local-machine>@6550 Thanks, David David Bender 11501 Burnet Rd. Phone (T/L): 1-512-286-5315 STAF/STAX Development Bldg. 903-5B002 (363-5315) Austin, TX ITN: 23635315 IBM Software Group, 78758-3400 Email: bda...@us.ibm.com WPLC From: "Yanping Wang" <ypw...@yahoo-inc.com> To: David Bender/Austin/i...@ibmus Cc: staf-users@lists.sourceforge.net Date: 04/19/2010 08:12 PM Subject: Re: [staf-users] mutex garbage collect Hi David, No, I am not running the latest STAF. I tried 3.3.1 and 3.3.5. Both give me the same results. the root cause of this problem is the remote machine cannot do staf ping to my local. I finally figured out that this a limitation because the machine is behind other firewall. Thanks, Jeff From: David Bender [mailto:bda...@us.ibm.com] Sent: Monday, April 19, 2010 5:18 PM To: Yanping Wang Cc: staf-users@lists.sourceforge.net Subject: Re: [staf-users] mutex garbage collect Hi, Are you running the latest versions of STAF (V3.4.1) on both machines? STAF local MISC VERSION STAF remote_ip MISC VERSION Can the remote machine communicate to your local machine via STAF? On the remote machine, does a "STAF <your-local-machine> PING PING" work? You need to make sure that works in order for the garbage collection to work correctly. Thanks, David David Bender 11501 Burnet Rd. Phone (T/L): 1-512-286-5315 STAF/STAX Development Bldg. 903-5B002 (363-5315) Austin, TX ITN: 23635315 IBM Software Group, 78758-3400 Email: bda...@us.ibm.com WPLC Inactive hide details for "Yanping Wang" ---04/19/2010 07:09:46 PM---Hi, "Yanping Wang" ---04/19/2010 07:09:46 PM---Hi, From: "Yanping Wang" <ypw...@yahoo-inc.com> To: <staf-users@lists.sourceforge.net> Date: 04/19/2010 07:09 PM Subject: [staf-users] mutex garbage collect Hi, I tried the sem service according to the user guide. C:\>STAF local SEM REQUEST MUTEX Mutex1 this works fine and the mutex is garbage collected. However, if I change the local to an IP address of the other machine. C:\>STAF remote_ip SEM REQUEST MUTEX Mutex1 The mutex is created but is not garbage collected. Does anyone know how to make garbage collection working? Thanks, Jeff Wang ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Download Intel® Parallel Studio Eval Try the new software tools for yourself. Speed compiling, find bugs proactively, and fine-tune applications for parallel performance. See why Intel Parallel Studio got high marks during beta. http://p.sf.net/sfu/intel-sw-dev _______________________________________________ staf-users mailing list staf-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/staf-users ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Download Intel® Parallel Studio Eval Try the new software tools for yourself. Speed compiling, find bugs proactively, and fine-tune applications for parallel performance. See why Intel Parallel Studio got high marks during beta. http://p.sf.net/sfu/intel-sw-dev _______________________________________________ staf-users mailing list staf-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/staf-users
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