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

[Steve Winter]

On 6 Feb 2009, at 11:36, Roger Moffat wrote:

>
> On Feb 6, 2009, at 3:48 AM, Steve Winter wrote:
>
>> 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'm more with Gjermund on this. On my 2 machine setup, the Database  
> server is more likely to have troubles, and when it does it often  
> isn't alive enough to send the messages. If I don't discover it  
> myself I get eMails from someone who is wondering why the get error  
> 956 (I think that's the number) when trying to connect via Custom  
> Web Publishing.

But that was exactly my point...! that the web server will still be  
live, but the database server dead, which is why I have scripts  
running on the web server to test if the database server is still  
alive and if it's not, then send me an email... I have a two-prong  
approach, I have error trapping code in my solutions which send an  
email if they ever get an FX::Error (though obviously for this to  
happen some end-user will also have seen an error, and I have a script  
called from the command line, which performs a query, and if that  
fails, it triggers an email alert... and both of those things run on  
the web server in a two-machine setup...

> But when the Apache machine is having troubles the database machine  
> is pretty quick to send an eMail out saying that there's a problem.
>
> I don't/didn't think that the Apache machine was actively polling  
> the database machine to see if it was alive, and if not sending an  
> eMail - I had assumed that the eMails came only from the database  
> machine, and when it wasn't feeling well it didn't have the  
> wherewithal to send an eMail sometimes.

You're quite correct, all of this relates to the automated emails  
which FMS itself sends, which wasn't really what I was talking about ;-)

Cheers
Steve

> (This is with FileMaker Server 9 - I have, but haven't installed yet  
> FileMaker Server 10)
>
> Roger
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Steve Winter
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