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I have an apology to make, Scott - you were right when you suggested a script might be to blame. </div>
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We'd had some Shibboleth outages, so put a process in place which used the output of status.bat to try to determine whether the service was still responding. This output is slightly different in v. 4 to v. 3, so the regex it uses was not matching, and it was
restarting the service, every 15 minutes. I'd forgotten about this.<br>
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Thanks for your support, and sorry to trouble you for nothing.<br>
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Rob.</div>
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<div id="divRplyFwdMsg" dir="ltr"><font face="Calibri, sans-serif" color="#000000" style="font-size:11pt"><b>From:</b> users <users-bounces@shibboleth.net> on behalf of Cantor, Scott <cantor.2@osu.edu><br>
<b>Sent:</b> 17 February 2022 12:51<br>
<b>To:</b> Shib Users <users@shibboleth.net><br>
<b>Subject:</b> Re: Metadata reloading every 15 minutes after 4.1.5 upgrade</font>
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<div class="PlainText">On 2/17/22, 6:03 AM, "users on behalf of Robert Hardy (r.hardy)" <users-bounces@shibboleth.net on behalf of r.hardy@yorksj.ac.uk> wrote:<br>
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> I have noticed, from the output of status.bat, though, that it seems to be the service which is restarting,<br>
> rather than simply the metadata reloading (start_time is always within the last 15 minutes, and consistently at<br>
> 00,15,30 and 45 minutes past the hour):<br>
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Yes, I assumed so, because otherwise it wouldn't be doing anything but a conditional GET and not bothering to do any work.<br>
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The simplest workaround is just to stop using the aggregate nobody should be using that with an IdP anymore. That won't fix it, but the server won't do anything that significant when it reloads an MDQ definition but force some new fetches while handling requests.<br>
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Is there any filesystem evidence metadata-providers.xml is actually changing? If not, that doesn't suggest to me it's reloading normally anyway. For this to happen, it would have to be improperly refreshing, and improperly believing it had to refresh it at
all. That's hard to really believe.<br>
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-- Scott<br>
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