Danny, That's a good idea, but I've seen situations were the service was still up but users could not log in. So this might be a good backup plan, but may not work all the time.
Joe D'Souza wrote: > > Netscaler is a bit different then I guess. I have seen that it shows red > the > moment the ARS goes down or if you shut down its service.. I usually use > the > Services console on the admin console of netscaler when I hear of a outage > on any of our servers and it does show it if its down. > > Joe > > -----Original Message----- > From: Action Request System discussion list(ARSList) > [mailto:[email protected]]on Behalf Of Danny Kellett > Sent: Friday, January 23, 2009 2:30 PM > To: [email protected] > Subject: Re: Cisco Loadbalancing Keepalive Scripts > > > We had the same thing Joe. Telnet keeps the connection open for some > reason > even when the AR Server is not up. I believe we also have a cron script to > monitor for the processes and if one of them is not running then it > creates > a file. The load balancer checks for the files existence and acts upon it. > > Regards > Danny > > -----Original Message----- > From: Action Request System discussion list(ARSList) > [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of versicle > Sent: 23 January 2009 18:55 > To: [email protected] > Subject: Re: Cisco Loadbalancing Keepalive Scripts > > Joe, > > That's how we have it configured now, but I'm not sure that is an accurate > reflection of the status of the application. The port can be responding > but > the application can be down. > > > versicle wrote: >> >> We are using a Cisco loadbalancer in front of our three application >> servers and we are trying to configure it with a script to determine some >> "ok" application response. We were considering writing an API script to >> login and return some message. Has anyone done this or have any better >> easier suggestions? >> >> We are running ARS 7.1 patch 5 >> >> Mike > No virus found in this outgoing message. > Checked by AVG. > Version: 7.5.552 / Virus Database: 270.10.12/1911 - Release Date: > 1/23/2009 > 7:28 AM > > _______________________________________________________________________________ > UNSUBSCRIBE or access ARSlist Archives at www.arslist.org > Platinum Sponsor: RMI Solutions ARSlist: "Where the Answers Are" > > -- View this message in context: http://www.nabble.com/Cisco-Loadbalancing-Keepalive-Scripts-tp21612112p21640577.html Sent from the ARS (Action Request System) mailing list archive at Nabble.com. _______________________________________________________________________________ UNSUBSCRIBE or access ARSlist Archives at www.arslist.org Platinum Sponsor: RMI Solutions ARSlist: "Where the Answers Are"
