RE: Monitoring applications using Cactus

[Vincent Massol <vm...@pivolis.com>]

Hi Toni,

Honestly, I don’t think Cactus is the best tool for this. I would think more
about using a "JMX" kind of framework for this (search "application
monitoring" on google) or using AOP if you want to build it yourself (t's
very easy to develop some monitoring services using AOP).

-Vincent

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Anton_Grimm@mn.man.de [mailto:Anton_Grimm@mn.man.de]
> Sent: mardi 29 juin 2004 11:38
> To: Cactus Users List
> Subject: Monitoring applications using Cactus
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> A question please ...
> 
> In my company the hotline uses the monitoring tool BigBrother (think of a
> web-frontend with red or
> green dots behind a hostname or an application reporting availability).
> To monitor our web-applications we like to use standard cactus tests for
> testing the availability of
> any Backend-System (Database, LDAP, MQ-Series, IMS, etc.) used in an
> application and from
> within the application process.
> 
> The only problem I see at the moment is:
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> The client side has to notify the monitoring application about the status
> of a test. In the case the
> application is not available at all (f.e. server down) the cactus
> framework
> does not give me any
> chance to catch this exception (on the client side) and notify BigBrother.
> 
> Is it possible to catch the cactus exception
> 
>       ChainedRuntimeException: Failed to get the test results ... ?
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> Any other ideas?
> 
> Regards,
> 
> Toni
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