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

[Gjermund Gusland Thorsen]

I am questioning whether or not it's possible for the same node that
is if I understand you correctly possible to diagnose itself and still
send an email if something is really wrong.

For my system I do a port scan of port 80 on the FMSA machine and
simulatenously I do this port scan on the web server, however I do NOT
perform this portscan from any of those two machines running the
services.

Was I clear or confusing now?

ggt

2009/2/6 Steve Winter <steve at bluecrocodile.co.nz>:
> 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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