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>What tools or techniques to you use to monitor listserv's status on AIX?
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>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.