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From: ellen@demon.siemens.com (Ellen M Voorhees)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.isis
Subject: monitoring program
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Date: 4 Oct 90 14:41:53 GMT
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Is there a(n easy) way to send a broadcast to all the members
*and clients* of a group?

I want to write a monitoring program that will display the message traffic of a
group to a user, but I don't want the monitor to become a member of the group
(because I want to be able to detect when all the "real" members fail
and because active members compensate for failed members but shouldn't
compensate for failed monitors).  There could potentially be several monitor
processes running concurrently, but there could also be none running.
If possible, I'd like the monitoring to be transparent to the main group
members.

If broadcasting to clients is not available, is there another way of monitoring
a group's traffic?

Ellen Voorhees
ellen@siemens.siemens.com