Re: [Dspace-tech] Automatic system alert when tomcat is down.

2008-03-13 Thread Jayan Chirayath Kurian
alert when tomcat is down. Yes, there are also enterprise grade monitoring tools out there you can use to make sure that services are correctly functioning on your systems. We currently use an open source tool called Nagios. http:// www.nagios.org/ -Mark On Mar 13, 2008, at 5:49 AM, Mark H

Re: [Dspace-tech] Automatic system alert when tomcat is down.

2008-03-13 Thread Mark Diggory
Yes, there are also enterprise grade monitoring tools out there you can use to make sure that services are correctly functioning on your systems. We currently use an open source tool called Nagios. http:// www.nagios.org/ -Mark On Mar 13, 2008, at 5:49 AM, Mark H. Wood wrote: > Um, in gene

Re: [Dspace-tech] Automatic system alert when tomcat is down.

2008-03-13 Thread Mark H. Wood
Um, in general it is not possible for a failed system to report that it has failed, because it has already failed. :-/ What I do is to run a periodic check on a different host. My script is far from complete, but it often catches problems that I need to know about. I have cron run it every five

[Dspace-tech] Automatic system alert when tomcat is down.

2008-03-12 Thread Jayan Chirayath Kurian
Hello, Is it possible to put into place an alert system on the DSpace server to be informed by email or an SMS to hand phones that the system is down (in fact Tomcat is down for system administrator). Just a thought put forward by my colleague. Please suggest. Cheers! Jayan ---