Using inetd for automatic service restarts ?

[Haydn Solomon]

Hi everyone,   I’m relatively new to mon and I’m reconfiguring mon on our system since the previous mon “expert”� no longer works with our company. We have software written in house for monitoring but I� would like to get mon up and running myself because I think it has a lot of features our in house software lacks. Anyway, I have been going thru the mailing lists to see what I can find on automatic restart of services. Basically two approaches were mentioned. 1. using snmp and 2. writing a script to ssh into the server with the failed service. However I noticed that our previous mon guru used the inetd service to restart the services on the remote machines. Does anyone out there have any experience or knowledge of how this works. I would appreciate any replies on this and I’m continuing my research on this. Thanks   -- Haydn