I shut down the depot, without shutting down all the containers that had agents in them, and there was a constant stream of java exceptions (one for every ping, so one a second) This is probably part of a larger story about considering what happens if communications between an agent and the depot get interrupted, how long till the depot gives up on a container and reassigns to another one, but in the meantime these messages do get a bit annoying. – 2008-12-05 11:51:54,464 [WARN] Caught exception while polling Agent: (AgentPoll er) com.sun.jersey.api.client.ClientHandlerException: java.net.ConnectException: Con nection refused: connect at com.sun.jersey.impl.client.urlconnection.URLConnectionClientHandler.h andle(URLConnectionClientHandler.java:193) at org.apache.servicemix.grid.agent.AuthClientFilter.handle(AuthClientFi lter.java:26) at com.sun.jersey.api.client.Client.handle(Client.java:404) at com.sun.jersey.api.client.WebResource.handle(WebResource.java:462) at com.sun.jersey.api.client.WebResource.access$200(WebResource.java:64) at com.sun.jersey.api.client.WebResource$Builder.get(WebResource.java:35 6) at org.apache.servicemix.grid.agent.RestTemplate.poll(RestTemplate.java: 69) at org.apache.servicemix.grid.agent.RestGridClient.pollAgentHistory(Rest GridClient.java:159) at org.apache.servicemix.grid.agent.InstallerAgent.call(InstallerAgent.j ava:141) at org.apache.servicemix.grid.agent.AgentPoller.agentPoll(AgentPoller.ja va:64) at org.apache.servicemix.grid.agent.AgentPoller$1.run(AgentPoller.java:5 7) at java.util.TimerThread.mainLoop(Timer.java:512) at java.util.TimerThread.run(Timer.java:462) Caused by: java.net.ConnectException: Connection refused: connect at java.net.PlainSocketImpl.socketConnect(Native Method) at java.net.PlainSocketImpl.doConnect(PlainSocketImpl.java:333) at java.net.PlainSocketImpl.connectToAddress(PlainSocketImpl.java:195) at java.net.PlainSocketImpl.connect(PlainSocketImpl.java:182) at java.net.Socket.connect(Socket.java:520) at java.net.Socket.connect(Socket.java:470) at sun.net.NetworkClient.doConnect(NetworkClient.java:157) at sun.net.www.http.HttpClient.openServer(HttpClient.java:388) at sun.net.www.http.HttpClient.openServer(HttpClient.java:523) at sun.net.www.http.HttpClient.<init>(HttpClient.java:231) at sun.net.www.http.HttpClient.New(HttpClient.java:304) at sun.net.www.http.HttpClient.New(HttpClient.java:321) at sun.net.www.protocol.http.HttpURLConnection.getNewHttpClient(HttpURLC onnection.java:813) at sun.net.www.protocol.http.HttpURLConnection.plainConnect(HttpURLConne ction.java:765) at sun.net.www.protocol.http.HttpURLConnection.connect(HttpURLConnection .java:690) at sun.net.www.protocol.http.HttpURLConnection.getInputStream(HttpURLCon nection.java:934) at java.net.HttpURLConnection.getResponseCode(HttpURLConnection.java:367 ) at com.sun.jersey.impl.client.urlconnection.URLConnectionClientHandler._ invoke(URLConnectionClientHandler.java:233) at com.sun.jersey.impl.client.urlconnection.URLConnectionClientHandler.h andle(URLConnectionClientHandler.java:191) ... 12 more 2008-12-05 11:51:55,555 [WARN] Caught exception while polling Agent: (AgentPoll er)