Checking Essbase service state

Question

Hi,
Sometimes happens that you can not start any Essbase app which normally starts.
The reason could be there is orphaned Essbase process :) and to run app you must kill this process.
I would like to automate this process for administrator task.
Have you got or know any tool or script which could help with automate this kind of task?
...and I would like to ask about another products e.g. Shared Services, Financial Reporting, Planning which are deployed on Tomcat - these services sometimes hang, you could see that service is working but the only way to work with product is restart service?
pscol

Answer 1

Well if we are going to spoon feed:
#!/bin/ksh
PID = `ps -ef | grep -i ESSBASE | grep -v grep`
#Kill with HUP to that ESSBASE can try to shutdown all the children apps
kill -13 ${PID}
sleep 600
PID = `ps -ef | grep -i ESSBASE | grep -v grep`
#If pid still exists
if [[ ! -z ${PID} ]]; then
kill -9 ${PID}
fi
#You will need to figure out which column the PID is in and adjust the cut command appropriately.
ESSPIDS=`ps -ef | grep -i ESSSR | grep -v grep | cut -c1-5`
kill -9 ${ESSPIDS}
Feel free to reach out -- I should build up a Linux VM which would be close to AIX.
-John