I have a korn shell script that is launched by cron every 5 minutes. This script is checking ORACLE processes to make sure that they are up and running. When it finds one that is down, I am paged every 5 minutes until I can fix the condition that causing me to get paged. Can someone please give me some tips on how I would set up this script to run every 5 minutes from cron but page me only once an hour. Thanks
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You could set a 'flag file' to decide whether you should be paged
e.g
Oracle process failed
If 'paged' file does not exist
send pager message
touch 'paged' file
else do nothing
First time around there is no 'paged' file so the script pages you and creates the file.
Second time around nothing happens
when your problem is fixed, you could delete the 'paged' file manually or further extend the script
e.g
if oracle process are ok
remove 'paged' file
e.g
Oracle process failed
If 'paged' file does not exist
send pager message
touch 'paged' file
else do nothing
First time around there is no 'paged' file so the script pages you and creates the file.
Second time around nothing happens
when your problem is fixed, you could delete the 'paged' file manually or further extend the script
e.g
if oracle process are ok
remove 'paged' file
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