Just for follow up…

 

You might be able to do something tricky, like use the ha_port on a backend port that coldfusion already uses, to check for connectivity.

 

See this technote:

http://www.macromedia.com/cfusion/knowledgebase/index.cfm?id=tn_18336

 

Maybe what I would do is turn on the internal webserver on port 8500, and poll that.  That way, you’re hitting the coldfusion server directly.  It all depends on what types of failures you want to detect.

 

You can turn on the internal webserver by editing your jrun.xml in cf_root /runtime/servers/default/SERVER-INF/jrun.xml  (or coldfusion/SERVER-INF if you’re CFMX7), searching for jrun.servlet.http.WebService, and setting the deactivated value to false.

 

Good luck, let me know what works for you.  (since I’m a CFMX shop too)

 

Joe

 


From: Martin PAPY [mailto:papy@imageforce.com]
Sent: Thursday, October 20, 2005 8:02 AM
To: pound@apsis.ch
Subject: Re: [Pound Mailing List] When a backend server hangs up...

 

Hello everybody !

Hum did I forget to tell you that the OS is Windows 2000 ? (Yes I know it sucks... but my boss was working before at Microsoft France :'( ... totaly brain washed ! )

Anyway, I will try to develop with a friend a little prog in Java for checking URL because my boss don't want to see anything else than Java or .Net on the web servers... (not event php ! )

I'll send the prog when it's finished if someone is interessed in.

Thanks to all for your help !

Martin

Sascha Ottolski a écrit :

Am Donnerstag, 20. Oktober 2005 12:47 schrieb Sascha Ottolski:
  
Oh, may be I should mention that I didn't manage to test script against a
pound server, but I can't imagine why it shouldn't work as expected. Don't
forget to configure your pound accordingly:
 
 BackEnd 127.0.0.1,80,9,55555
    
 
just to confirm: it works :-)
 
Cheers, Sascha