check if qlikview server services are alive and able to response

[marcus_sommer]

Hi all,

are there any ways to check if qlikview server services are alive and able to response. I don't mean to look into the qmc or to check the services per windows services-check then the checks should be work automatically and a windows services-check queried only if the process is running and no error is communicated to windows - but this doesn't mean that the services worked properly.

I have seen the suggestion to tools like Servers Alive - https://community.qlik.com/message/196427#196427 - but I'm not sure if this isn't too comprehensive for me then I want not monitor anything I want only to be able to notice if the services aren't response anymore - to restart the services or the machine.

Maybe there are settings within the qmc or directly within the settings.ini which could do or at least support it.

In my old environment I have had a routine which checked each 6 hours if users are active on the access point (per reading the session logs) and if not restart all services - but I don't want to use such routines anymore. I have thought to something like to ping the services - is this possible? Are there other (easy) ways? How do you handle this topic?

- Marcus

[YoussefBelloum]

Hi @marcus_sommer 

I'm trying to find a solution for the exact same problem now, checking the Qlik services states..

Did you found an interesting solution for this ?

Thank you 

[marcus_sommer]

No, not really. In the end I use nothing of it in production and go just in action if I notice any consequential error and/or I get any user-call and usually the last happens quite quickly but luckily (since a few years) not very often anymore ...

- Marcus

[YoussefBelloum]

Thanks for your time !

Hope I can find something interesting as soon as possible.. and the prod here remains as stable as yours..