<div class="content" name="CheckAccountingConnection" uuid="85467663-a1bf-462f-b3ba-d3b740885e68"><p>The CheckAccountingConnection method determines the status
of the connection to the <a href="e371cc74-bf4c-4870-8afe-5062cc628b4f#gt_00ade642-0391-435b-980a-8fb488ef1b68" data-linktype="relative-path">accounting
server</a>.</p><p><b>Note</b>  This method is expected to be called
remotely by the WSRM <a href="e371cc74-bf4c-4870-8afe-5062cc628b4f#gt_1517eb9b-d2b2-48f0-bf23-bde76923ed30" data-linktype="relative-path">management
service</a>. In a remote <a href="e371cc74-bf4c-4870-8afe-5062cc628b4f#gt_1156c8ef-4d49-462b-9f76-aebcb6c57011" data-linktype="relative-path">accounting</a>
scenario, this method is called by the <a href="e371cc74-bf4c-4870-8afe-5062cc628b4f#gt_bb8795a8-ff43-416b-976a-6257b68fe7fa" data-linktype="relative-path">accounting client&#39;s</a> WSRM
service to check the connection status. A WSRM client SHOULD NOT call this
method.</p><dl>
<dd>
<div><pre> [id(13), helpstring(&#34;method CheckAccountingConnection&#34;)] HRESULT CheckAccountingConnection();
</pre></div>
</dd></dl><p>This method has no parameters.</p><p><b>Return Values: </b>This method returns 0x00000000
for success, or a negative <a href="e371cc74-bf4c-4870-8afe-5062cc628b4f#gt_799103ab-b3cb-4eab-8c55-322821b2b235" data-linktype="relative-path">HRESULT</a>
value (in the following table or in <a href="../ms-erref/1bc92ddf-b79e-413c-bbaa-99a5281a6c90" data-linktype="relative-path">[MS-ERREF]</a>
section <a href="../ms-erref/705fb797-2175-4a90-b5a3-3918024b10b8" data-linktype="relative-path">2.1.1</a>)
if an error occurs.</p><dl>
<dd>
<table><thead>
  <tr>
   <th>
   <p>Return value/code</p>
   </th>
   <th>
   <p>Description</p>
   </th>
  </tr>
 </thead><tbody><tr>
  <td>0x00000000 S_OK</td>
  <td>Operation successful.</td>
 </tr><tr>
  <td>0xC1FF0209 WRM_ERR_ACC_DISABLED_FOR_REMOTE_CLIENT</td>
  <td>Accounting is disabled on the remote accounting server.</td>
 </tr><tr>
  <td>0xC1FF020A WRM_ERR_ACC_CLIENT_CONN_TERMINATED</td>
  <td>Connection to remote accounting server failed. The remote connection has been terminated by the accounting server because the accounting functionality of the accounting client was disabled.&lt;54&gt;</td>
 </tr><tr>
  <td>0xC1FF020E WRM_ERR_ACC_NO_CONNECTION</td>
  <td>The operation failed. There is no existing connection to the remote database server.</td>
 </tr></tbody></table>
</dd></dl><p>It is possible for multiple WSRM servers to have a common
accounting database server. <a id="Appendix_A_Target_55"></a><a aria-label="Product behavior note 55" href="1af5b971-a682-44a0-affe-c98947d5e7f7#Appendix_A_55" data-linktype="relative-path">&lt;55&gt;</a></p><p><b>Note</b>  Remote accounting is not supported in
a workgroup environment.</p><p>Additional <a href="d5942816-752f-480a-9712-38ef0a248b6a" data-linktype="relative-path">IWRMAccounting</a> interface
methods are specified in section 3.2.4.3.</p></div>