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How do you retry the Web Tools Agent connection on Failure?

asked on June 26, 2024

In an On-Prem system, we have it listening on a port but it still shows Failed on all 3 ports under Settings > Advanced. How do we re-attempt and see the status of the communication as it attempts to do so?

The local text logs have been no help because it is not writing any new information there for weeks.

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replied on June 26, 2024 Show version history

Refresh the page, and it will attempt to reconnect. There should be information in the browser console. What exactly do you mean by "we have it listening on a port"? Are you saying that you have confirmed that it is currently listening on a port? Or are you saying something about a configuration change you have made?

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replied on June 26, 2024

Well in most cases when it fails we run a netstat and find that it is not listening for some reason, either the user disabled it or uninstalled it. But this is a case where they confirmed one of the listed ports shows listening on a netstat command so we are baffled as to why it says it failed when trying to connect. Maybe the failure is something more complicated and we want to see what failed exactly. If you just visit the page it says failed with no information so we need something like a button we can press to connect and watch it attempt to talk to the service with more detail.

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replied on June 28, 2024

If you reload that Options page it will reconnect, and the browser console may have some additional information. Our code running inside the browser has very little ability to determine why the connection failed, and even the browser console may be limited in what it reveals. The next step would be using curl or similar - the browser network tab will show the exact request being sent, and Chrome has the context option to copy a request into curl syntax.

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