Labels:text | screenshot OCR: Checks: Machine (RS/6000) OS (AIX) DBMS (SQL Server) Gateway (MDD) Production Backup Prod. Development Application Comm Links Databases Up Schedule every 10 minutes: Application Up · OS facilities (crontab) · Job Scheduler FIGURE 1 The systems availability-monitoring program verifies that the soft- ware programs are up and running. If not, it restarts them. It also cross-checks other machines by running the same systems availability routines remotely. If any of the remote software systems are unavailable, the monitor restarts them too.