[hobbit] Process ID Tracking.

[Ralph Mitchell]

On Jan 29, 2008 11:24 AM, Haertig, David F (Dave) <haertig at avaya.com> wrote:

>  You could write a custom script to do this easily (you'd need to remember
> state, but that's easy).  I'm not aware of any built-in Hobbit check that
> would do this however.  Maybe somebody else knows.
>
> Other things to consider trying (using standard Hobbit stuff):
>
> When the process restarts, does it do anything in a logfile?  i.e., could
> you have Hobbit search for a restart text message in a logfile?  Is the
> logfile deleted and recreated at restart?  You could have Hobbit check the
> timestamp on the logfile possibly.  When the process restarts, does it write
> it's PID to a file?  Check the timestamp of that PID file.
>

If the process gets rstarted by a script, maybe the script could write a log
entry for Hobbit to monitor??

Ralph Mitchell
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