Batch File to check Process state

[Patricia Smith]

Hello,

I’m having a problem with one my sites. I have one process that shuts down when it receives a panic message. I’m still working on fixing the problem that causes the panic but in the meantime I would like to run a batch file that checks the state of the process and if the state were “dead” then it would issue the command to start the process.  Does anyone have a TCL or batch file that does this or something similar to it?

Thanks,

John Calhoun

Programmer Analyst

Owensboro Medical Health System

270-852-8562 jcalhoun@omhs.org

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[Steve Carter]

Can you just setup an alert that will restart the process if it dies?  I think that would be a quicker temporary solution than writing a batch file.

Steve

[Patricia Smith]

I’ll try it out,

Thanks,

John

[David Burks]

When you set up that alert you might consider configuring so it does not restart the process until it has been down for say 10 minutes and make sure everyone knows about it.  It can be a little frustrating if you are intentionally bringing something down for troubleshooting or other purposes and it keeps coming back up and nobody remembers why.  😉

[David Dillard]

I wrote this script to check the processes in our site and send out an e-mail if any of them were dead or down.  A cron job was used to run the script on a regular schedule (every 15 or 30 min depending depending on the time of day)  

As David pointed out you want to avoid “crying wolf”  — the e-mails either get everyone in a panic or are ignored as false alarms.

You should be able to modify it for your specific site and e-mail address and adjust the text to read how you like.

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