id	summary	reporter	owner	description	type	status	priority	milestone	component	version	resolution	keywords	cc	blockedby	blocking	notify_on_close	platform	project
15752	Better reporting for webservices	Zach Pearson	Zach Pearson	"The recent BLAST outage really illustrates the need for more information to be sent between ChimeraX and webservices. Webservices knows if a service is down, and there are a few ways ChimeraX could get and react to this information:

- We could have a long running job that queries webservices every N (minutes|hours) to see what services are online 

- Tools could check the status of just their services when they start and disable themselves if the service is down

- Some combination of the above: a central registry for service statuses that tools check

More dynamism on the client side would prevent a lot of user confusion. "	enhancement	assigned	moderate		Web Services				chimerax-programmers				all	ChimeraX