Re: [Quickfix-users] TEST Request messages...

[Brendan B. B. <br...@ka...>]

For information about the TestRequest and Heartbeat messages, see
See Volume 2 - FIX Session Protocol in FIX 4.4 Documentation at
www.fixprotocol.org/ .

I would not recommend removing the definition from the dictionary or
attempting to otherwise disable this - it *is* in the protocol for a
reason - to detect problems of communication.

Regards,
Brendan

On 12/22/2010 3:43 PM, azmat wrote:
> QuickFIX Documentation: http://www.quickfixengine.org/quickfix/doc/html/index.html
> QuickFIX Support: http://www.quickfixengine.org/services.html
>
>
> Hello everyone,
>
> Another TEST Request related question.  Essentially I see these messages
> throughout my QF event logs.  Everytime I get disconnected from my broker,
> it is preceded by a TEST request (35=1) message.  I'd like to know what
> exact circumstances causes a 35=1 message to be fired by QuickFIX as an
> initiator.  Here is an excerpt from my QF event log.
>
> 20101222-18:18:54 : Sent test request TEST
> 20101222-18:19:12 : Timed out waiting for heartbeat
> 20101222-18:19:12 : Disconnecting
>
>
> Also is there a way to entirely disable the sending of these messages?
> I was thinking of deleting these lines from the DataDictionary:
>
> <message name="TestRequest" msgtype="1" msgcat="admin">
>    <field name="TestReqID" required="Y" />
> </message>
>
> Would this be a way to disable TEST request messages?
> Is there any other way, preferably via configurations, that ought to be used
> to disable such messages?
>
> thanks!