Re: Monitoring TCP/IP connections

I would set up a never ending CL that would do a ping to the associated IP
Address.  If okay wait a few second then ping again.  If error send a
message out.

It sounds like it might be a lot of over head but my understanding is that
the ping is very low on overhead.  We did this and had the message go to
someone's pager.  It worked very good.  We usually knew we had a problem
before the person on the other end did.


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Kerwin S. Crawford
System Analyst
Toastmaster Inc.
A subsidiary of Salton, Inc.
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-----Original Message-----
From: oliver.wenzel@cibavision.Novartis.com
<oliver.wenzel@cibavision.Novartis.com>
To: MIDRANGE-L@midrange.com <MIDRANGE-L@midrange.com>
Date: Thursday, August 17, 2000 5:30 AM
Subject: Monitoring TCP/IP connections


>> Hello,
>>
>> we have 2 Unix boxes (RS/6000) accessing our 620 (V4R3) via TCP/IP and
>> DB2/Connect. We need some automatic means
>> of monitoring these connections - i.e. we want to know asap when
>> transactions cease or stop.
>>
>> The Unix boxes constantly read/update about 5 files on the AS/400. There
>> are five jobs running in QSYSWRK called QRWTSRVR
>> and 5 connections in netstat (option 3) under port drda.
>>
>> Are there any other possibilities to check for activity for these two
>> boxes - beyond wrkactjob/netstat?
>>
>> Thanx,
>>
>> Oliver
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