The Availability Watcher

Sometimes it's necessary to be alerted should situate server encounter problems and become unresponsive. The availability watcher allows you to configure one or more situate agents to send an SOS message should this happen.

The following steps should be used to setup this feature:

Step 1

Pick a computer other than the Situate server that has an agent installed on it that is a member of the domain whose server you want to watch. It must be a linux box.

Step 2

Edit the /opt/situate/situate.properties and add...

watch_domains: <domain>
watch_command: <some command>

where <domain> should be the name of your domain and <some command> will be called to report the issue. It's up to you to decide what to put there. The command will be passed "-domain <domain>" as arguments. More may be added in the future.

After the Update

If after 90 seconds, situate does not have a workable connection to the asset, the specified command will be executed. If after 300 seconds there is still no workable connection and for every 300 seconds thereafter, the specified command will be executed.