Hi, I intend to include a SMS in my System Platform installation, my question is what happens to a up and running system, when a connection to a System Management Server goes down?
Hypothetical scenario,
one platform running appengines,
one client with a OMI and historian,
intouch access anywhere gateway
Then a separate machine functioning as a SMS. The SMS goes down/ connection lost, for some reason, how does that affect the system? Everything shuts off or?
regards
Jakob
Hi Jakob,
it depends how the SMS is configured on the nodes.
If it's configured to allow only encrypted communications, any SuiteLink connection will try to authenticate, fail to do so, then disconnect.
If SMS is configured to accept non-encrypted communication, it will connect anyway but not applying TLS. E.g. the following setting will allow non-encrypted fallback.
Hi Jakob,
it depends how the SMS is configured on the nodes.
If it's configured to allow only encrypted communications, any SuiteLink connection will try to authenticate, fail to do so, then disconnect.
If SMS is configured to accept non-encrypted communication, it will connect anyway but not applying TLS. E.g. the following setting will allow non-encrypted fallback.
Ok, thank you for your help!! The main reason for choosing to have a SMS active in the system, is because i require redundant appengines, and according to ASP guidelines the SMS is a requirement for being able to do that, there were some other things as well the webviewengine if i remember correctly.
Seeing the text NOT RECOMMENDED next to the option of no SMS in the configurator is convincing as well 
thank you!
