monitoring netsacpe web server

[Roberto Gallis]

HI,
I need to build a script which monitor running of netscape https server.
If some process go down I need to restart the server.
Process running are
./uxwdog -d /usr/netscape/suitespot/https-dcsv02/config
/usr/netscape/suitespot/bin/https/ns-httpd.qos -d /usr/netsc

often there are other process for netscape administration.
How can I build this script?

[Maureen Gunkel]

Roberto,
Do you want to have the script restart the web server, or just notify you that it's down? You could script a 'wrap-around' that starts the two processes in your message, and writes the PID for each to a temp file. Then, you could do a ps -p 'PID,PID' and if it doesn't find them, restart the web server/or notify you.
Hope this helps,
Mo

[nnf97]

If you have a number of web servers running on a single box, you could possibly have a script in the cron which ran say, every five minutes which wouldgrep for the and 'httpd' in the ps -ef output. And if it didnt find the specific process would restart it.

Also, the other way is to have the script parse the watchdog log and start the webserver if any is down.

Hope this helps.

Nabeel

[Jitendra_1]

If you want the netscape server process to be up all the time , you may want to put it in /etc/inittab with respawn bit set.

hth