I'm a big fan of NetSaint for system monitoring (http://www.netsaint.org). There are numerous scripts and you can write your own (all open source) and you can set how quickly it goes to a warning or critical level and how to notify you. For SMTP checking, it just connects, sends a HELO, and then disconnects.
Serge Knystautas Loki Technologies - Unstoppable Websites http://www.lokitech.com/ ----- Original Message ----- From: "Shal Jain" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "James Users List" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Friday, February 01, 2002 10:05 AM Subject: Monitoring if James is alive > I need to monitor the health of James - basically if its running. Are there > any builtins that will let me basically 'ping' James to see if its up and > working. > I'm running on NT so I can't use a shell script to get the job's pid. Until > I convert James to start as a NT service, I can't use > any service API's that will allow monitoring. I can't also simply monitor > the running tasks because the image name is simply java.exe > (besides I'd have to switch over to C++ to write the NT Task monitor) > > > Two possible options are > a) configure a thread - part of a custom mailet that starts up along with > James and essentially responds to a ping request > b) send an email to a predefined address that is captured using a mailet > that will then write a 'I'm alive' signature somewhere > > I would think that 'A' is a little cheaper in terms of execution but am open > to other approaches. > > -shal -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> For additional commands, e-mail: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
