AIX

Hi all,

How to inform server owner if the particular process is down.
I need command or script to do the above.

TIA

You can periodically with cron check if process is up via ps command and if not you can send an email to him for example.

Code:

ps auxx | grep sleep | grep -v grep
if [ $? == 1 ]
then
  echo "Sleep is down." | mail -s "Server xyz report" admin@mail.com
else
  echo "Sleep is up." | mail -s "Server xyz report" admin@mail.com
fi

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I used an sleep function here which could be easily used for this purpose.

Thanks for the help,

But if i have to check for a particular process like pid=176383 how to check whether trhe process is down or up

You are getting it wrong,
If you are saying a process, then follow steps given by 'Smoofy' (just replace sleep with you desired process, like oracle or any application process or cluster process anything).

But, from above email you are requesting monitoring a process ID, a process can hold many process ID's, so going with Process ID ain't a good thing, it can be gone or changed when the process is complete or crashed or killed.

Ex: you are saying pid 176383, say for now sshd is using that process ID (a user logged'in and a process ID is generated for that ssh connection). If you go with that and monitor that process ID, after the user is logged off, the ID is either gone or after some time taken by another process and your judgement will go wrong.

Hope this helps.