Hi, Then you might want to try running one of the utilities called something like arshowsvr and look for the output. You can specify the RPC port so you can specify 390600 or 390620 etc. I haven't used it in a while but its still available.
-----Original Message----- From: Action Request System discussion list(ARSList) [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of versicle Sent: 24 January 2009 13:20 To: [email protected] Subject: Re: Cisco Loadbalancing Keepalive Scripts 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-tp21612112p21640 577.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" __________ Information from ESET NOD32 Antivirus, version of virus signature database 3799 (20090125) __________ The message was checked by ESET NOD32 Antivirus. http://www.eset.com _______________________________________________________________________________ UNSUBSCRIBE or access ARSlist Archives at www.arslist.org Platinum Sponsor: RMI Solutions ARSlist: "Where the Answers Are"

