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Process Cron Service Health

Microsoft.Solaris.10.Process.Cron.Monitor (UnitMonitor)

Solaris 10 Process Cron Monitor

Knowledge Base article:

Summary

This process monitor watches for the Cron daemon to be running.

Causes

An unhealthy state indicates that the Cron daemon is currently unavailable.

Resolutions

Check the service on the system by running 'ps -ef | grep cron' or by viewing the diagnostic in the Operations Manager Console. If it is down, you can start the process using the command 'svcadm enable cron' or by clicking the recovery link in the Operations Manager Console.

For root cause analysis, first check the system logfile (/var/adm/messages), and view any related entries at the time of failure. You may also check the system for any process core files. Use '/usr/bin/pstack [corefile]' to print a stack trace which will assist in troubleshooting the cause of failure.

Element properties:

TargetMicrosoft.Solaris.10.OperatingSystem
Parent MonitorSystem.Health.AvailabilityState
CategoryAvailabilityHealth
EnabledTrue
Alert GenerateTrue
Alert SeverityError
Alert PriorityNormal
Alert Auto ResolveTrue
Monitor TypeMicrosoft.Unix.WSMan.Process.Status.MonitorType
RemotableTrue
AccessibilityPublic
Alert Message
Cron is not running
The cron daemon on server {0} is not running.
RunAsDefault

Source Code:

<UnitMonitor ID="Microsoft.Solaris.10.Process.Cron.Monitor" Accessibility="Public" Target="Microsoft.Solaris.10.OperatingSystem" TypeID="Unix!Microsoft.Unix.WSMan.Process.Status.MonitorType" Enabled="true" ParentMonitorID="SystemHealth!System.Health.AvailabilityState">

  <Category>AvailabilityHealth</Category>

  <AlertSettings AlertMessage="Microsoft.Solaris.10.Process.Cron.AlertMessage">

    <AlertOnState>Error</AlertOnState>

    <AutoResolve>true</AutoResolve>

    <AlertPriority>Normal</AlertPriority>

    <AlertSeverity>Error</AlertSeverity>

    <AlertParameters>

      <AlertParameter1>$Target/Host/Property[Type="Unix!Microsoft.Unix.Computer"]/PrincipalName$</AlertParameter1>

    </AlertParameters>

  </AlertSettings>

  <OperationalStates>

    <OperationalState HealthState="Success" MonitorTypeStateID="Running" ID="Running"/>

    <OperationalState HealthState="Error" MonitorTypeStateID="NotRunning" ID="NotRunning"/>

  </OperationalStates>

  <Configuration>

    <TargetSystem>$Target/Host/Property[Type="Unix!Microsoft.Unix.Computer"]/NetworkName$</TargetSystem>

    <ProcessName>cron</ProcessName>

    <Interval>300</Interval>

  </Configuration>

</UnitMonitor>