RE: Watchdog software?

["Paul Gale" <groups2@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Mmmm - I think it was an error box but not 100% sure now.

Paul.



> -----Original Message-----
> From: ukha_d@xxxxxxx [mailto:ukha_d@xxxxxxx] On Behalf
> Of Steve Morgan
> Sent: 28 April 2007 07:52
> To: ukha_d@xxxxxxx
> Subject: RE: [ukha_d] Watchdog software?
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> I've typically done this with some bespoke code before, as the
symptoms
> of
> the crash tend to vary between applications.
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> Many apps will put up some kind of dialog box that reports an error. A
> watchdog can monitor such dialog boxes and kill the app.
>
> My weather station software used to just hang. I detected that by
> monitoring
> a log file that it creates for changes. If no changes are made within
a
> specific period of time, the watchdog assumes it's crashed and
restarts
> it.
>
> What are the symptoms of this app crashing?
>
> Steve
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: ukha_d@xxxxxxx [mailto:ukha_d@xxxxxxx] On Behalf
> Of
> Paul Gale
> Sent: 27 April 2007 17:18
> To: ukha_d@xxxxxxx
> Subject: [ukha_d] Watchdog software?
>
> Anyone aware of software that allows you to monitor any other piece of
> software i.e. a watchdog?
>
> I had an HA app crash the other day which provides important charting
> for my
> fish tank - went for several days without noticing it'd crashed :-(
>
> Would be excellent to be able to monitor several bits of s/w and get
> some
> kind of alert if they stopped responding :-)
>
> Paul.
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