Re: Way to monitor if minivend is hung

[Hans-Joachim Leidinger <hans-joachim.leidinger@home.gelsen-net.de>]

Hello Angelica,

if you use UNIX, there are a script to watch minivend server (is hunging
or not?). 
I.e.

#!/bin/sh
cd /home/mvend/tmp
rm teststore.out
/usr/local/bin/lynx -dump http://www.yourdomain.com/cgi-bin/bol/about >
teststore.out
if /bin/cat teststore.out | /usr/bin/grep "Internal Server Error" >
/dev/null
then
        /usr/bin/mail root < teststore.out
        /bin/sh /home/mv/mvend/bin/restart
elif /bin/cat teststore.out | /usr/bin/grep "MiniVend server not
running" > /dev/null
then
        /usr/bin/mail root < teststore.out
        /bin/sh /home/mv/mvend/bin/restart
elif /bin/cat teststore.out | /usr/bin/grep "server is unavailable" >
/dev/null
then
        /usr/bin/mail root < teststore.out
        /bin/sh /home/mv/mvend/bin/restart
fi


See also the original from this mailing list....

Subject: Re: crontab entry to check for dead Minivend server
   Date: Sat, 27 Mar 1999 04:50:30 +0100
   From: Ryan Hertz, Ryan Hertz

Joachim

Angelica Olins wrote:
> 
> ******    message to minivend-users from "Angelica Olins" <angelica@loadup.com>     ******
> 
> Hello Everyone,
> 
> When Minvend hangs I get
> >We're sorry, the MiniVend server is unavailable...
> >We are out of service or may be experiencing high system demand, please try
> again soon.
> After I restart it works fine.
> 
> The WebTrends monitor software only checks whether a page is accessible, it
> doesn't check what's being displayed on that
> Page. So its hard to know when MiniVend is hung.
> 
> Question: Is there anyway to see if MiniVend is serving the 'unavailable'
> error page instead of catalog pages and notify by email.
> --
> Angelica Olins <angelica@LOADUP.COM>
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