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18    <ul style="list-style-type: square;">    <ul style="list-style-type: square;">
19      <li><a href="#proutag">PROUT AG</a>      <li><a href="#proutag">PROUT AG</a>
20        <li><a href="#sturtewagen">Tim Sturtewagen</a>
21    </ul>    </ul>
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43  Until now, it has worked like a charm (even though no failures happened yet). From my point of view, I can recommend it highly. It takes some time to get to all the bits, but then ..... On the other hand -- who ever said that such a highly sofisticated system is trivial. I am now at my 4th HA installation, and it works perfectly!  Until now, it has worked like a charm (even though no failures happened yet). From my point of view, I can recommend it highly. It takes some time to get to all the bits, but then ..... On the other hand -- who ever said that such a highly sofisticated system is trivial. I am now at my 4th HA installation, and it works perfectly!
44  </p>  </p>
45  </div>  </div>
46    <div style="background: #fff; padding: 0px 0px 2px 10px; border: 1px dotted #ccc;">
47    <a name="sturtewagen"></a>
48    <p>I have only last week installed monit on a machine we use for tomcat application serving. Our company is in the process of upgrading the server, but needed a monitoring application for the time being to make sure the tomcat server doesn't go down every week or two. Our ISP (<a href="http://www.positive-internet.com">www.positive-internet.com</a>) advised us to try out monit;
49    <p><code>"My advice would be to use something like monit. You can install it via Debian (apt-get install monit). It's a wonderful bit of software.
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51    Spend an hour or so looking at the config examples, and then another setting up your machine just so means that you can get it running like clockwork."</code>
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53    <p>So I did! It took me some more time - I had some calls and other stuff in between - but after a few hours, monit was up and running on Thursday afternoon.
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55    <p>I only installed one configuration, for checking the tomcat process over a http connection. In case of no response, monit would restart the tomcat app server. As alert address I entered my i-mode email address, so that any email would arrive on my mobile phone [I live in Brussels and use <a href="http://www.base.be">www.base.be</a>].
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57    <p>On Friday night I left for Madrid, as I was going to a wedding party on Sunday afternoon [in Madrid I automatically roamed on <a href="http://www.amena.com/">www.amena.com</a>].
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59    <p>Quiet weekend, nice wheather, cool city and then ... it is Sunday morning. Me and my girlfriend are getting ready to go to the party, we still have one hour before we have to leave. Suddenly an email arrives on my phone. It was monit, telling me the tomcat protocol test had failed.
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61    <p>Damn!
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63    <p>It was 35 degrees outside, and I was sweating like hell. I didn't really have the time to sort out what was happening. There was a computer running in the very room I was in, so I looked up the server, and indeed it was down, showing me the horrible "Internal Server Error". At the same moment a second mail arrived. Monit again. The tomcat4 process had died.
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65    <p>There was no ssh client on the computer I was using, so I quickly downloaded putty. Before I had opened it, a third mail arrived. More bad news from monit, I thought. But no, this was a happy message. My faithful employee was sending me tomcat's new pid id! And another mail came in. Now telling me the tomcat connection had passed.
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67    <p>I reloaded the browser window, and yes, all was up again! In only 6 minutes, monit had handled the situation and kindly told me what it was doing in the meantime. Wonderful.
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69    <p>Many thanks and kind regards,
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71    <p>Tim Sturtewagen
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73    <p><i>Doggybites BVBA</i>
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75    </div>
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78  <?php include '../include/footer.html'; ?>  <?php include '../include/footer.html'; ?>

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