Re: Knowing if application is "alive"

why not have a LISTENER/Client (TCPIP)?

Monitor would be the listener and apps would be clients. They'd just need
the monitor's IP.

Is this possible?

Thanks,

Shane

ps. just an Idea
<arfinmail@xxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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>I have 4 applications which are supposed to run 24/7. How can I make a
> monitor application to know if they're running fine?
>
> The best I can come up with is making them update a file/DB every X
> amount of time and have the monitor app check that mark. If the mark
> haven't updated then it means the program stopped. The programs do
> their thing multithreaded so we don't have the problem of waiting for
> the main thread to finish.
>
> But this is so rustic that I think there's got to be a better way.
> I'm hoping of something like sending an event over the network from the
> running app to the monitor. This way the monitor will just sit there
> listening to the other apps and if it stops receiving a message the
> notify it.
>


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