[GIS] How to monitor the arcgis server 10.0 services

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I regularly have the problem that after windows server updates the application server is automatically restarted and the ArcGIS Server 10.0 services are not restarted. I am not aware of this until my colleagues call to ask why the system isn´t showing Geodata. This then takes 30 minutes to stop the tomcat server, flush logs, restart AGS services and test that everything is running.

Is there a monitoring tool which would indicate or even send emails when the status of running services change?

Best Answer

In theory this is a "solved" problem from a SysAdmin perspective. Any good monitoring package can monitor things, it just depends on identifying things to monitor (for which it helps having well documented protocols; ArcGIS's proprietary services make things somewhat tricker).

http://www.thegeekstuff.com/2009/09/top-5-best-network-monitoring-tools/ - contains one list. Nagios is one I have experience with an works fine; bonus in that it's open-source. I used it successfully to monitor a GeoServer install at a lot of different levels:

  • WMS/WFS requests succeeding (parsing XML responses).
  • TomCat service still running (Windows service checker)
  • GeoWebCache not being over-whelmed (Parsing of a HTML page)
  • Load balancer working fine (Parsing of a .properties file).

You may also be interested in the sister https://serverfault.com/ community.

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