Why not use the telnet com addon and check if the telnet server says that SA is still checking....
Dirk. -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Jon Marsden Sent: Thursday, June 03, 2004 6:10 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: [SA-list] Redundant SA's Michael, This is a MUCH more elegant way of handling it than just monitoring the service itself from a second machine...doing them both in conjunction with one another will make you fairly bulletproof...any way I can get a copy of your solution as well? I think this is good enough that Woodstone should include it as a third party solution...if you don't mind it being distributed that broadly. Jonathan Marsden Part-Time Geeks Computer Services www.ptgeeks.com -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Michael Shook Sent: Thursday, June 03, 2004 12:02 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [SA-list] Redundant SA's What I do is have the primary SA output an HTML page containing just enough code to be included in an ASP page with the lastcyclestart time (and other variables) after each cycle. Then I have an ASP page that calculates the datediff between the SA output and Now(). If good, then the ASP page writes "OK" to the browser in HTML, and "ERROR" if the datediff is too old. Then the secondary SA does a HTML check looking for the contents of my asp page. If it contains "ERROR" then I know that the primary SA hasn't updated recently. Because SA writes the HTML output as a last step, this is a reasonably good check that all is well. This is also extremely good for checking for horrendously long cycles, that while technically ARE running, they are just taking too long. If you're interested, I can zip up the files and send them to you offlist. Michael Shook Technical Analyst Saddle Creek Corporation 723 Joe Tamplin Industrial Blvd Macon GA 31217 478 742 8740 ext. 105 (work) 478 256 9318 (mobile) 478 742 7917 (fax) [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.saddlecrk.com >>> [EMAIL PROTECTED] 06/03/04 11:15AM >>> I am looking for a way to have one SA box check another SA box to ensure that SA is running. I looked at SAIsAlive but I really want something to send an Alarm to show that SA is down. I thought about checking the service but thought that if it was hung it may show as running. I was wondering if there was a way to have SA look at the log file and note that the date/time has changed or really any creative idea anyone has would be appreciated. --- [This E-mail scanned for viruses by Declude Virus] To unsubscribe from a list, send a mail message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] With the following in the body of the message: unsubscribe SAlive ---------------------------------------- My Inbox is protected by SPAMfighter 512 spam mails have been blocked so far. Download free www.spamfighter.com today! --- [This E-mail scanned for viruses by Declude Virus] To unsubscribe from a list, send a mail message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] With the following in the body of the message: unsubscribe SAlive --- [This E-mail scanned for viruses by Declude Virus] To unsubscribe from a list, send a mail message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] With the following in the body of the message: unsubscribe SAlive
