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Monitoring Application Server September 30, 2010

Recently , I came across a situation where an application server domain should be monitored always and whenever it is down , an email should go to concerned team.

Application server was on a windows 2003 server.

To get an email , first of all we need to setup SMTP  in psappsrv.cfg. Then we will require any kind of third party tool like bmail or sendmail. I have used sendmail.

I have written a bat file which runs infinitely , and gather application server status after every 1 minute and take this output in a text file . Whenever application server is up , it will have BBL.exe process running . Search for ‘BBL.exe’ in text file and if found do nothing , delete the text file and continue the infinite loop.

If not found , go to send mail procedure , which will send emails to an individual or a group , and will keep mailing at fixed interval until application server is up.