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<title>Connection Status Dialog</title>
<h1>Connection Status Dialog</h1>

The Connection Status dialog appears whenever the
    <a href="clustmon/home_page">Cluster Monitor</a>
begins to monitor a node.  It can also appear after the Cluster Monitor
loses connection to a node, when the Cluster Monitor tries to
re-establish the connection and resume monitoring.  The Connection
Status dialog displays the state of each node that is being monitored.
<p>

<img src="clustmon/conn_status_dialog.gif"> <p>

The stages the Cluster Monitor goes through when monitoring a node
are:  <p>

<ul>
<li> <b>Waiting for Connection</b> - Cluster Monitor is waiting to
     establish a connection with the node.  Additionally, the
	<a href="clustmon/fp_picture_area">graphical picture area</a>
     representation of the node will have a dashed border and will
     continue to display the last known configuration until a
     connection is established.
<li> <b>Reading Configuration</b> - Cluster Monitor has established a
     connection and is receiving the hardware configuration (and some
     software state information) from the node.
<li> <b>Reading Messages</b> - Cluster Monitor has finished reading the
     node configuration and is now reading messages from the node.
<li> <b>Done</b> - Cluster Monitor has finished receiving all messages
     from the node up to now.  Any new messages will get reported to the
     Cluster Monitor as they come in.
</ul>

When all nodes reach the <b>Done</b> state, the Connection Status
dialog pops down automatically.  <p>


