We use Nagios to monitor all of our servers. It works pretty well, but
we did have to write a small program for Nagios to check the 3050
service. We just have it log into a database that it is monitoring and
run a simple stored procedure. If it fails then we have it page us with
a text message so we know what server, what database, and when it first
failed.

-steve

On Tue, 2005-08-30 at 17:36 +0200, Yves Glodt wrote:

> Hello,
>
> I want to make periodic checks whether an FB server is running or not
> (the FB service and thus the box itself as well).
>
> Is there a way to connect to port 3050 and send a specifiy string or
> packet and get a well defined answer (to see if server is alive or
> not)?
>
> Or should I make a separate daemon that checks locally whether FB
> turns
> (ps -e | grep ...) and gives me my well defined answer on a tcp
> socket
> when I ask it for?
>
> Regards,
> Yves
>
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