I can confirm that the Satellite Connector has been very stable for us and all of our customers since you and your team's work on this.
Original Message:
Sent: Thu December 04, 2025 12:44 PM
From: GERALD COON
Subject: Experiences with Satellite Connector Reliability
Hello. IBM Cloud Satellite Connector Architect here. I wanted to update this thread in case others come upon this with what we did to address this with the Planning Analytics team. The method we used to update our service relies on triple redundant everything. 3 pathways, 3 IP addresses, IBM cloud multi-zone regions (MZR). What we learned in working with the Planning Analytics team is that database drivers to do some of the advanced work that happens in Planning Analytics usually don't have database connection pooling or connection failover/retry mechanisms to employ our triple redundant pathway. This isn't the PA team's shortcoming. This is actually how most database client drivers are designed. In order to reduce the disruption to PA and IBM customers, we aligned our updates to the Planning Analytics teams updates (see notices for outages for specifics). I believe this has been quiet now for most users of this for months, but please open a support case if anyone sees issues and we always work together to address issues that arise.
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GERALD COON
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Original Message:
Sent: Tue May 27, 2025 10:29 PM
From: Joseph White
Subject: Experiences with Satellite Connector Reliability
Hi,
Yes, I think this is the same if you are seeing TC22 messages in your log file. We've been in regular contact with IBM on this and I'm happy to say that they appear to have a handle on this and the stability issues are now greatly improved, although we might not be at a full solution quite yet.
Joe
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Joseph White
Original Message:
Sent: Tue May 27, 2025 08:41 AM
From: Jing Yee Harle
Subject: Experiences with Satellite Connector Reliability
Hi
We experienced same issue on 12/5/25 and 15/5/25.
IBM reviewed the satellite connectors logs for both days and they have responded today that this is an issue on their side which is currently under investigation.
See response below:
I can tell you that this was the expected behaviour caused by Satellite server activities on our side. Your Agent could experience such restarts, error is always the same:
All connections for U2F0ZWxsaXRlQ29ubmVjdG9yOiJjcmttNnM3ZjEwOGtqMnRubWI5MCI have been destroyed
This is currently being investigated by Satellite Development team, you should not experience restarts in next days.
Make sure to:
- Exclude Satellite Agent folders from Antivirus scans on your machines.
- Make sure to install the newest Agent version (1.2.0).
- Notify IBM Support about any new occurrence of that error.
Regards
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Jing Yee Harle