RE: Watchdog software?

["Paul Gale" <groups2@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Thanks Rob - I appreciate the offer :) although I'd be looking to
monitor several apps if possible - rather a challenge and if there's
something off-the-shelf, that may be easier to find first?

Cheers,

Paul.


> -----Original Message-----
> From: ukha_d@xxxxxxx [mailto:ukha_d@xxxxxxx] On Behalf Of
> Rob Iles
> Sent: 28 April 2007 02:40
> To: ukha_d@xxxxxxx
> Subject: RE: [ukha_d] Watchdog software?
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> Can you give any more details on the nature of the crash?
> Application/Service? Did it freeze, or exit?
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> What OS?
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> How would you detect it crashes? (e.g. does it regularly write to a
> file/send network traffic - - so that an absence of this would
indicate
> it's
> not working?)
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> If you can provide more info, I'm sure "we" can come up with
something.
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> Rob
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> -----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?
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> Anyone aware of software that allows you to monitor any other piece of
> software i.e. a watchdog?
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> 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 :-(
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> Would be excellent to be able to monitor several bits of s/w and get
some
> kind of alert if they stopped responding :-)
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> Paul.
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