Determining if ColdFusion is alive and communicative

We need to write an agent in the *nix world to "ping" the cfmx services and determine not only if they are running but that they are able to communicate with an Oracle backend.  Does anyone have suggestions on how to approach this problem? Thanks, Kevin Bridges  

If you prefer to get something pre-made check out http://www.deepmetrix.com/ipmonitor/ We use this to monitor basic things like ping, and if service are running. I know you can have it monitor an Oracle ODBC connection as well. Thank you, Dan Phillips Express Technologies, Inc. dba HalfPriceHosting, CFXHosting and Invotion. www.HalfPriceHosting.com www.CFXHosting.com www.Invotion.com We need to write an agent in the *nix world to "ping" the cfmx services and determine not only if they are running but that they are able to communicate with an Oracle backend.  Does anyone have suggestions on how to approach this problem? Thanks, Kevin Bridges

We had something running like this at my old job.  Basically we wrote a cfm page that did a query then output just the word ok. Big IP would look for ok, if it wasn't there then it would fail over that server. Tim We need to write an agent in the *nix world to "ping" the cfmx services and determine not only if they are running but that they are able to communicate with an Oracle backend.  Does anyone have suggestions on how to approach this problem? Thanks, Kevin Bridges  

That's perfect ... thanks. If you prefer to get something pre-made check out http://www.deepmetrix.com/ipmonitor/ We use this to monitor basic things like ping, and if service are running. I know you can have it monitor an Oracle ODBC connection as well. Thank you, Dan Phillips Express Technologies, Inc. dba HalfPriceHosting, CFXHosting and Invotion. www.HalfPriceHosting.com www.CFXHosting.com www.Invotion.com We need to write an agent in the *nix world to "ping" the cfmx services and determine not only if they are running but that they are able to communicate with an Oracle backend.  Does anyone have suggestions on how to approach this problem? Thanks, Kevin Bridges

We use a java servlet to call a .cfm page with a simple cfquery on it (see below). This tests CF, the connection to the database, and the database itself. Chris Norloff <cfquery name="systemdt" datasource="#DSN#"> SELECT SYSDATE AS SELECTDT FROM DUAL </cfquery> <cfif systemdt.RecordCount is not 0>   <cfset txtoutput="OK_DB_CF"> <cfelse>   <cfset txtoutput="NO_DB_CF"> </cfif> <cfoutput> #txtoutput# </cfoutput> Reply-To: cf-talk@houseoffusion.com date: Wed, 11 Dec 2002 08:58:05 -0700 ----- Excess quoted text cut - see Original Post for more -----