[spaceman]

hmmm…

I think I am beginning to understand what this is doing, that even though this is an AFP server it is all going through automount. Good. This is starting to make sense.

So the next step for me seems to be, is there anything I can watch for that will let me know when a server is encountering difficulty, or that a connection is down, and I can use as a sign that things need a kick?

I’m thinking along the lines of watching the network, seeing if a hiccup is noticed, and pinging the server if the network is ok to see if the problem is remote. But this seems a little kludgy, perhaps there is a more graceful way of dealing with the failure? I’m leery of editing things in the /System/Library just because they’ll be overwritten at system updates, but it also makes deploying them a tad trickier. Perhaps a launchd process that can watch the network?

Cheers, and thanks,
Martin

[Author]

Posts