Is message severity of message "Stealing link for clientId...' relevant (ERROR vs. WARN)

Question

There is a commit 9397ac1 which seems to be taking care of the issue. The comment expresses to suppress the warning, although the XML is referring to is as an error. I assume the log level is wrong to suppress the message? Or does it indeed exists as ERROR and WARN whereas the WARN version should be noted by the user/admin?

On our server, from time to time, the log is flooded with the message (as WARN) like 30 times/second for the same device. Is this the bug/problem the original ticket was about?

https://github.com/h-mdm/hmdm-server/commit/9397ac1e4beae0fa906193d83e91a4e59fafb32f 

Answer 1

This message is currently suppressed (as per the commit). This message means that a device has reconnected, which is a frequent case. This message may need to pay attention only if a device is in a reconnection loop (you've apparently met that issue, reboot the device to fix). The repeating warning may flood logs quickly and cause more serious failures when the storage is full. So we decided to suppress it. 

In the future, we will deprecate MQTT. Consider switching to HTTP polling to avoid issues like this.