[ic] email notify of process stopped

[Lynlinks Technologies]

thanks!

----- Original Message -----
From: "Marty Tennison" <marty@sediva.com>
To: <interchange-users@icdevgroup.org>
Sent: Tuesday, June 24, 2003 4:07 PM
Subject: Re: [ic] email notify of process stopped


> On Tue, 2003-06-24 at 11:30, Lynlinks Technologies wrote:
> > Does anybody have a simple way to verify an IC process is running and if
> > not, automatically be notified via email so it can be restarted?  It can
be
> > annoying not to know when a store is down.
> >
> > Colt
> >
>
> Here is what I do.
>
> 1) Add a new variable to variable.txt like this, and "apply changes"
>
> IS_IC_UP YES_IC_IS_UP General
>
> 2) Create a page called is_ic_up.html and put this code in it.
>
> [either]__IS_IC_UP__[or]NO[/either]
>
> 3) Create a script to query that page.
>
> # Note: Remember to set $homedir and $geturl or
> # hard code them in the script.
> $result = `GET http://$geturl/query/is_ic_up.html`;
> chomp($result);
>   if ( $result !~ /YES_IC_IS_UP/) {
>     system("$homedir/interchange/bin/interchange -r -u");
>   }else{
>     print "Successfully retrieved is_sediva_up.html via http\n";
>   }
>
> 4) Add a cron entry that calls the script every 15 minutes.
> 0,15,30,45 * * * * /somepath/is_ic_up.pl > /somepath/is_ic_up.log 2>&1 &
>
> 5) Sleep at night.   :)
>
> You can periodically monitor the is_ic_up.log to check on things.  I've
> been running a script similar to this (I also check the connection
> between Mysql and interchange) and it seems to do the trick.  If the
> server ever has to be rebooted in the middle of the night, I only suffer
> a few minutes of downtime.
>
> You can add an email or pager routine to email and/or page you pretty
> easily.
>
>
> --
> Marty Tennison <marty@sediva.com>
>
>
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