While Sambar Technologies takes all crashes very seriously, the most important consideration is the availability of the WWW server. Therefore, the Sambar Server Watcher Daemon was developed to monitor the Sambar Server and ensure that it is always running.
The Watcher Daemon should only be used when running the Sambar Server as a windows GUI (bin\server.exe). When run as an NT Service, the Watcher Daemon may disrupt the normal operation of the Sambar Server as an NT Services.
Important: The Watcher Daemon does not run by default. The Watcher Daemon can be configured to run through the Sambar Server administration interface. The Watcher Daemon should not be started manually.
The Watcher Daemon performs a www-ping of the server every 5 minutes (configurable) and if the server does not respond, it is terminated and restarted. A log of all actions taken is written to the log/watcher.log file.
The following [server] configuration parameters are used by the watcher:
The Watcher Daemon connects to the Sambar Server via the localhost address (127.0.0.1). In the event of a WatcherLog failure, a message is written to the log\watcher.log file.
| Run Watcher | true or false |
| Watcher Timeout | # (minutes) |
| Watcher Server | bin\server.exe |