Hi

I'm look to implement some kind of email alert when the job fails or stop working (jobdaemon). I have a simple print job running 1-2mins to verify jobdaemon is running, but I manually have to look at it.

What would be the best way to send an email alert when that job fails to run after for example 3 mins?

Would it easier/best to run some kind of check at the unix level?

Many thanks
pan

Hi there,


... alert when the job fails or stop working (jobdaemon)

So you would have to monitor the jobs success as well as the state of the jobdaemon.

I would do the following:
Make the job create a simple file (may be empty) as its last step (you may want to use the report script to do this).
Start a job via cron some minutes after the job should have finished.
This simple job will state the presence of the file, create the email if the file doesn't exist and finally erase the file.

hth

Norbert

When defining jobs , there are fields to indicate number of subsequent jobs to skip on error / success . U may use these fields to run a session only on error of job steps.

There are many alternatives to send email (like os mailx / outollok automation in vb .net etc ) which u can gather further more detail on this board.