Version

Argent Advanced Technology – All versions

Argent Job Scheduler – All versions

Date

Monday, 6 May 2019

Summary

In the situations that Argent AT Daughter Engine cannot communicate with Mother Engine, or Argent Job Scheduler Engine cannot communicate with a remote Argent Queue Engine, take the following steps to diagnose the issue:

1. Is Mother Engine or Argent Queue Engine running? Check Task List and Service Manager to determine
2. Is Mother Engine or Argent Queue Engine listening to the right port? Use ‘netstat -a’ to find out
3. Is Firewall preventing the communication? On Argent AT Daughter Engine or Argent Job Scheduler Engine, run ‘telnet remote_machine port’ to make sure that server port is connectable
4. Is MTU too big? Reduce MTU to 1,500 and reboot the machine

Routers that support smaller MTU have to fragment the original packet into several smaller ones before transmitting

When originator node, target node and intermediate routers on the way have mismatched MTU values, routers might not always capable of automatic fragmentation and re-assembly

(This is why this is a very difficult issue to diagnose – the intermediate routers can vary from one packet to the next; one time the transient router may have a sufficiently large MTU, but the next packet may use a different intermediate router that has a MTU that is too small…)

As a result, the communication can be intermittently disconnected, which is an extremely elusive issue to debug