RE: Best way to monitor for Running Node server on IBM i

I had a similar experience recently where a job was set up with PM2, but I was able to get around using PM2 because this was a job that really just needed scheduling once per day so I just ran the Node app and it ends when complete.

With PM2 the job was ending up with all kinds of extra running threads because there doesn't appear to be a good way to determine where a node thread job is coming from to tell which specific PM2 service it belongs to.

Is that what you're experiencing ?

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Richard Schoen
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date: Fri, 28 Feb 2020 09:50:38 -0600
from: B Stone <bvstone@xxxxxxxxx>
subject: Best way to monitor for Running Node server on IBM i

I thought about posting this in open source, but because it's more general to jobs/IBM i I thought I would start here.

I am putting together some web service jobs that will be called from IBM i jobs (RPG, CL, etc). These web services will be node.js servers.

I have PM2 installed but I am wondering if there is any way to check that specific jobs are running in the PASE environment, mainly node.js servers.

I do have a check function set up (ie, "are you running?") that I can use GETURI to check if the server is up, but was curious if there were any other integrated functions on the IBM i side of things to check if they are up. Maybe a job or set of jobs that I can query to see if they are running vs a ping/request/etc.

I may be overthinking it, but because these services will be a vital role in the applications running I want to make sure that it is simple to check for these jobs and start if not running.

Bradley V. Stone
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