Oracle Audio Technologies A86828-01 User Manual

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Monitoring the Web Server

Monitoring Your Web Server

2-7

The script is designed to be run by cron (or an equivalent daemon that executes
commands at intervals). To use the script, you must modify the following
configuration variables:

Enabling server status is very useful if an httpd process is not responding, and you
need to identify that process. Operating system utilities such as ps, top, or pmap do
not identify which process is not responding.

For more information on mod_status, see:

http://www.oreillynet.com/pub/a/apache/2000/04/21/wrangler.html

http://www.apache.org/docs/mod/mod_status.html

Table 2–2

Log status script variables

Variable

Value

$wherelog

The pathname of the log file location, for example:

/private/admin/logs/

The script creates a file name, such as: 20010945.

$port

Port number of the server to monitor. The default is 80.

$server

The server host name. The default is localhost.

$request

The server status request with the auto parameter as entered in
the browser, for example:

http://servername:port/server-status?auto

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