Generic UDP Service Monitoring

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UDP Service is a network service that uses User Datagram Protocol (UDP) to communicate with its clients.

Network Host device driver supports availability/operability monitoring for UDP services of any kind (hence the term "generic" used here). Several UDP services can be configured to be monitored at a particular IP host.

Synchronization Details

Generic UDP service monitoring is very similar to Generic TCP service monitoring except that UDP (User Datagram Protocol) is connectionless. Therefore the monitoring procedure for a particular UDP service is confined to sending-receiving cycle:

1.Data specified in service configuration is sent to the provided port of the IP host.
2.A reply is awaited. Is some data is received within the specified timeout it is included in result data record.

The procedure is executed for every configured service/port. A particular service is considered Online if send and receive operations were successful. The whole Generic UDP Service is deemed Online if all configured services/ports are online.