It just occurred to me to ask: if the popups aren't occurring, where would we look for an indication of a problem? vcld log on the management node? Any telltale strings we might grep for?
On Fri, Jul 06, 2012 at 10:52:34PM -0500, Michael Jinks wrote: > Hi Josh. > > I found the e-mail setting. I expect that won't do much good when > people are using a machine without an e-mail client. > > No, we aren't getting any popup notification. But knowing that we > should be at least gives us something to investigate. > > > On Fri, Jul 06, 2012 at 10:10:59PM -0400, Josh Thompson wrote: > > Michael, > > > > For users with "Send email notifications about reservations" set to > > Enabled under User Preferences->General Preferences, the warning > > emails should be sent out if the user has an email address set. Email > > addresses are generally populated via ldap. If you are not populating > > email addresses via ldap, the notifications will not go out. > > > > There should also be a popup warning at 10 and 5 minutes within the > > session on the reserved node. If you are not getting a popup warning, > > there is a problem that needs to be looked in to. > > > > Josh > > > > On Fri, Jul 6, 2012 at 2:51 PM, Henry Schaffer <h...@ncsu.edu> wrote: > > > There is a warning, or a couple of them - from the FAQ. > > > "You will receive warnings at 10 minutes and 5 minutes before your > > > reservation expires." > > > IIRC, you can choose the type of notification, e.g. e-mail or ... I > > > think you need to set this in User Preferences (which I don't remember > > > how to access. :-) > > > > > > --henry > > > > > > On Fri, Jul 6, 2012 at 2:43 PM, Michael Jinks <mji...@uchicago.edu> wrote: > > >> We've noticed that when a reservation times out, the system drops its > > >> public NIC off the wire without any warning. I can imagine some pretty > > >> unhappy users who lose track of time and lose work when they get cut > > >> off. Has anyone engineered some kind of warning notice for this? > > >> > > >> Thanks. > > >> > > >> -- > > >> Michael Jinks :: mji...@uchicago.edu > > >> University of Chicago IT Services > > -- > Michael Jinks :: mji...@uchicago.edu :: 773-469-9688 > University of Chicago IT Services -- Michael Jinks :: mji...@uchicago.edu :: 773-469-9688 University of Chicago IT Services