[FX.php List] Monitoring FM Server 9/10 Advance

[Steve Winter]

Hi ggt,

I'm not really sure what you mean by 'Now that's a nice idea, but is  
it for real?'

Almost all of the systems that I'm running are a two-server setup,  
which has the web server on one (or more) box(es) talking to the  
database server(s) on another box (or boxes), with my 'checking'  
script running on the web server...

In my experience 99% of issues with FileMaker based solutions (which  
use Apache as the web server) are caused by a problem on the Database  
server, and not the web server... and even on single machine installs,  
the system itself is usually 'live' and so a command line based PHP  
script will still be able to run and send email...

I've frequently had emails from the system to tell me that there's a  
problem and been able to resolve it proactively before the client/ 
customer even knows that there is an issue. Over time, and as FMP has  
moved to a much more stable server architecture, the frequency of  
these messages has decreased...

YMMV

Cheers
Steve


On 6 Feb 2009, at 07:36, Gjermund Gusland Thorsen wrote:

> Now that's a nice idea, but is it for real?
>
> Do people who are shot or sick function realiably?
>
> Of course the best way is to listen to the ports on main page for  
> your FX.php,
> and if there is no response the webserver should send the mail
> message, I take for granted in this statement that you have FMSA and
> web server on two different machines.
>
> ggt
>
>
> 2009/2/6 Steve Winter <steve at bluecrocodile.co.nz>:
>> Hi John,
>> FMS itself can send automated emails when it detects any issue with  
>> the
>> server situation...
>> The other thing that I've done is to write a simple php script,  
>> which is
>> then run on a win2k3 server scheduled task every 5 min which  
>> attempts to do
>> a findAny() using fx on a series of database tables which should be
>> accessible... if it fails on any of those, then that PHP script  
>> sends me an
>> email with the name of the table in the message... I also have  
>> similar code
>> in all of the web solutions I develop such that if a user ever  
>> attempts to
>> connect to a db and that call fails then I get an email which tells  
>> me
>> that...
>> All of the above email go into an account which my mobile phone also
>> monitors so that I get notification almost in real time by email  
>> and alert
>> on my mobile...
>> Hope this helps... if you want code examples let me know...
>> Cheers
>> Steve
>>
>> On 5 Feb 2009, at 22:56, criticalsolution at comcast.net wrote:
>>
>> Has anybody written or used any kind of script or app to monitor  
>> FMSA 9 or
>> 10? My client wants a pro-acitive solution to tell tech support  
>> when there
>> is trouble (or not) on an FMServer. I thought that there might be  
>> some ways
>> to do this in FX/PHP?
>>
>> Thank you,
>>
>> John Funk
>> Critical Solution
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Steve Winter
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m: +44 77 7852 4776
3 Calshot Court, Channel Way
Ocean Village, Southampton SO14 3GR

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