>===== Original Message From LISTSERV give-and-take forum <[log in to unmask]> ===== >What tools or techniques to you use to monitor listserv's status on AIX? > >On VM, we watched the reader file queue. If it got large, someone was called. >This was automated so it worked without depending on frail humans :-) > >We are just now moving to the AIX platform. I came in this morning and found the server had stopped running at 00:30. There were no errors in the log. It just stopped. Have to catch this earlier somehow. Bill, I was wondering when PSU would move its Listserv operations off VM. Anyway, what we do to monitor our Unix Listserv is we set up a simply shell script that looks at the output from ps to make sure the lsv process is running. We also wrapped lsv around a supervisor program that automatically restarts it if it crashed. Anyway, my little monitoring script simply pages and sends e-mail if no lsv processes can be found and/or if lsv drops a core file. For us, lsv drops a core file about once every other week or so, but our supervisor keeps lsv running in most cases. If you want a copy of the script, please let me know. We schedule via a crontab entry to check on lsv every fifteen minutes.