[rabbitmq-discuss] Restarting/re-establising failed federation connections

[Matthias Radestock]

Michael,

On 19/07/12 16:04, Laing, Michael P. wrote:
> My Virginia cluster is upstream from my California cluster. And there is a
> link the other way, making the federation bi-directional.
>
> After some days of idleness (still in testing mode) both links went down.

Do the rabbit logs on the downstreams indicate that the connection went 
down? It is possible for network connections to vanish w/o rabbit 
noticing; if that's the case then you may want to enable heartbeats in 
your federation configs.

Matthias.