Windows Service Logon Failure - No Network Avaliable - windows-services

I developed a windows service that must logon to a server. It works fine. I set it to start automatically when the windows starts.
The problem is when there is no network avaliable, generating a "logon failure". This service MUST run 24hours a day, 365 days a year.
How can I avoid this service from crashing when it trys to logon, but can't reach the server?
Thanks.

Do a try...catch block, and set up a timer for say 30 seconds to retry.

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Guacamole Disconnect Session on User Idle

I have google'ed a lot on this question but haven't found an answer. I have a Guacamole server that connects to a local VNC session and I would like for it to disconnect the user session if it detects no activity for an hour.
What I've tried and attempted
used xprintidle to show idle time of the user, this works so will be put in a script that might be used later to terminate an idle session.
I have looked at Guacamole's api-session-timeout and set it for a minute, I had hoped it would not reconnect to the same session once the VNC server stops abruptly. It seems this did not work.
I have tried to use guacamole's user-mappings.xml to specify the parameter "autoretry" and set that to "1". Restarted and this did not work, I'm thinking its not used this way.
I have went to the guacamole postgres database and manually inserted the entry for autoretry into the parameter table. Restarted, but this did not work.
I have went to the VNC side (I use TurboVNC) and looked at the flag -idletimeout and configuration option max-idle-timeout. This terminates the TurboVNC service when there are no active connections. It is not what I am after, I'm trying to only disconnect the session when the user is idle.
I figured that the VNC side would not work because even if the VNC session is terminated Guacamole would keep on retying forever to reconnect to that session.
From some posts on the Guacamole mailing list it seems that disabling auto reconnect is not possible without a recompile from source.
Is there a way to disconnect an active session after an idle timeout period? or maybe a way to stop Guacamole from reconnecting?

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I'm creating a simple web app that can connect to a bluetooth device that I want to be able to use offline, so I use a service worker to store the app in the web cache. I know the cache only clears if there is no more space but what about the service worker?
I found that is lifespan is 24 hours. My question is how long can I use the web app without connecting to the internet? Is the cache the only problem or does the service worker "die" after x amount of time and I need to connect to the internet again?
No, it does not die. You can use it forever.
You're confusing two things. The 24 hour lifespan is actually an automatic update checking interval. In other words, when using a site frequently the browser will automatically check for updated Service Workers (specifically updated /serviceworker.js or wherever you store it). Your code can of course manually, programmatically check for SW updates more often. Usually apps check for new SWs every time they're launched. But the device may be offline for eg a month and that doesn't prevent the use of the app.

How to resolve timeout issues between 2 applications ?

My application is communicating with a service. The service provides user login , registration , update functionality (IAM Service) . Since, this feature is critical & we don't want to impact user performance, we set the timeout 500 millisec, considering the fact that both my application & the IAM service are in the same data center.
On analysis, we found that the IAM service on an average takes 10 - 12 millisecs & my application which simply sends the request takes 1 - 2 millisecs. Also, it does not happen for every request, just a few request.
The network engineer says the network is good & there are no leaks.
Request your inputs to understand, how should I proceed to analyze the root cause to recognize which component is taking time.
Make sure the Application and the Service are synchronized (have the same time stamp)
Log the Time stamp of request being sent by the App
Observe the time stamp when the request hits the wire
Log the Time stamp when the Request is being received by the Service
Log the time stamp when the Service sends out the response
Observe the time stamp when the response hits the wire
Log the time stamp when the app receives the response
The next time the timeout occurs - check the log to find out which two laterally adjacent time stamps have a difference of more than the 500ms. Now once you have the profiled information - focus on the particular segment that causes the timeout.

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The problem appears when the 2nd command sent to the server executes before the first. This way it alters the session identifier of the user that sent both commands, and when the 1st command tries to execute, it says the session id is incorrect.
Usually this scenario happens on peak moments when many users connect and thus the delay of the 1st command.
What is the proper way to handle these commands delays of the same user? Or queue them or manage them from apache?

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After connection successful, i will record all the tweet from server into database. The problem only occurs after several hours or days of running without issue, and then no more tweets can be retrieved. If I restart the client, processing resumes as normal and everything runs fine until the next hang.
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