Re: The role of 'PING'

Interesting.  We just had a printer writer stuck this week that was in SND 
for days until someone decided to tell someone who gave a rip.  We reset 
the writer.  I'd like to try this ping request next time.  In fact I used 
to have a CL program that would do something like
PING RMTSYS(SYSTEM) MSGMODE(*QUIET *ESCAPE)
followed by the appropriate MONMSG.  I might be able to dust that off. 
(Originally written to monitor a Windows server that used to lock up a 
bunch.)

Rob Berendt
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Any packets, Ping included (which are ICMP), will travel the path from 
the iSeries to the printer and back. By doing so the printer may be 
'woken up' and as such finally handle the spool job.  We have written 
jobs that do nothing but ping RF laser scanners to keep them from 
powering off and crashing the 5250 sessions.  If this solution always 
works I'd set up a batch job to run and just do a Ping every minute or 
two. Negligible netowork or OS/400 overhead and if it works, you win.

 - Larry

jns wrote:

>I have been having problems w/ a remote printer, that actually goes 
through a third party warehouse. The spool will stay in "SND" status. I 
tell the manager there to reset everything then I END the writer, restart. 
Often nothing happens, but then I remember to see if I can PING, and then 
it prints again. Does the PING so something?
>

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