See if Alfresco Server is available

[kameljahloug]

I am working with Alfresco and sometimes the server is down for low space or other problem , the thing is with my serverURL i want to check if he is available (Alfresco Server) i thought to make a ping but the adresse is to complexe for a simple ping ex : http://127.0.0.1:8084/alfresco/api/-default-/public/cmis/versions/1.0/atom
I am working in a J2EE Project

[gawadesk · Accepted solution]

Hi,

You can write a simple webscript (alive webscript) with authentication element as 'none' and can call this webscript using shell script. By making authentication element as none you make sure that no authentication needed to call webscript and can call webscript with guest user.

Thanks,
Krishna

[mrks_js1]

we have a monitoring tool in place that is doing a GET to http://server_iport/alfresco/service/index without providing a user

=> if it returns 401 everything is fine

anything other indicates an issue with the application. we have seen that alfresco can freeze in a way, that webscript urls are callable and return http status 200 but the application is dead and does not respond anymore.

[angelborroy]

We are using internal "touch" Alfresco URL http:/localhost:8080/alfresco/s/touch, ​which was used internally for clustering. An HTTP 200 means that everything is fine.