Hi Kevin Can I suggest 2 options:
1) Write your own monitor (Korn shell script or Perl script) to monitor the existence of your Tomcat instance: something like #!/bin/ksh ... insert commands to start Tomcat ... # poll Tomcat instance, and sleep if its alive while [`ps -ef | grep $TOMCAT | wc -l` -gt 0 ] do sleep 30 # set wait period in seconds to your taste done # otherwise, send an email mailx -s "Tomcat has died" [EMAIL PROTECTED] << EOF Tomcat just died at `date` `tail -100 $TOMCATLOG` EOF Where $TOMCAT represents something unique about your Tomcat instance {command line etc), and $TOMCATLOG is the name of its log file, so the email can tell you what/why it went belly up. 2) Download a freeware product from Quest called Big Brother, which can monitor log files for keywords, and/or process instance existence, with alerts being sent to email, cell phones, SMS etc as required. HTH Austin -----Original Message----- From: A mailing list for discussion about Sun Microsystem's Java Servlet API Technology. [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Taylor, Kevin Sent: 19 April 2004 14:51 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Tomcat monitoring Hi, Does anyone know of any monitoring software for detecting when a tomcat instance becomes unavailable and notifying support persons via email/page? Something open source, preferably. TIA. > --Kevin Taylor > ________________________________________________________________________ ___ To unsubscribe, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] and include in the body of the message "signoff SERVLET-INTEREST". Archives: http://archives.java.sun.com/archives/servlet-interest.html Resources: http://java.sun.com/products/servlet/external-resources.html LISTSERV Help: http://www.lsoft.com/manuals/user/user.html ___________________________________________________________________________ To unsubscribe, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] and include in the body of the message "signoff SERVLET-INTEREST". Archives: http://archives.java.sun.com/archives/servlet-interest.html Resources: http://java.sun.com/products/servlet/external-resources.html LISTSERV Help: http://www.lsoft.com/manuals/user/user.html