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Hi,

Is there any way in Widget Designer to monitor the health of PB Players. I have a third party control system that would connect to widget to poll some status of the Coolux system, i.e.: are all PB up and running.

Thanks

LP

The only thing I have been able to get out of them is a simple Ping...

There must be a way to get it... the PB Menu can tell you if a Client or Master is running, so I would imagine if that can poll that status, so can we....?

Hi,

for now the ping is the only way to see if the computer is up and running. To check the PB status from the Widget Designer is on the list, but not as easy as it seems.

best regards

Patrick

Checkout the server control window in VNC Remote. Its under 'Menu'.

I think you have to have the Coolux Desktop software installed on your clients for it to work though (?)
This is online in Downloads>Drivers>LCD/OSD Software>PB Menu and pretty sure its unsupported for Players (but it works for me)

Old thread, but is there a better way than ping to have WD monitor a bunch of clients?

There are a lot of server monitoring solutions available but many aren't that easy to setup.

If you are running servers accessible to the internet then server density is your best option.

If you are in a closed environment Cacti is the best solution.

http://serverdensity.com
http://www.cacti.net

Hey guys,

we just added a PB health information to the VNC remote to tell if the render engine is offline or online.
This will as well be implemented as a node within the Widget Designer soon.

Then you can call a state for all servers if the render engine is in a good state.
If not, feel free to quit the application and restart it.

Stay tuned
Markus

Markus Zeppenfeld wrote:Hey guys,

we just added a PB health information to the VNC remote to tell if the render engine is offline or online.
This will as well be implemented as a node within the Widget Designer soon.

Then you can call a state for all servers if the render engine is in a good state.
If not, feel free to quit the application and restart it.

Stay tuned
Markus

Markus, it would also be good to see if one or two outputs exist on the clients, via the widget.
Or Dualview status true/false...

Hi Lyndon,

so you want to gather the information from the "server control" within the PB_VNC_Remote as an input node in the Widget?

Markus

Kind of... I'd rather not have VNC open to gather the data.

I think the node would need:
Client IP (user enters the client IP to be monitored)
Client running (0 or 1)
Number of outputs active (1-4)
Client error code (could be expanded, I don't know what errors might be reported)

If the client error was verbose this field could be added as text to an email...!

Hi!

Sounds good. I will advance the ticket...

Markus

Thanks for turning my question into a feature

Is it in the current version already?

LP