Answered automatic internal watchdog ? (solved)

[danishgambit]

Morning 'talkers,

openedge 10.1on linux.

was using promon on a database that I inherited and didn't see any watchdog processes appearing. Talking to the chap I inherited it from and he was saying that it won't be seen because it's using the internal watchdog that starts up with the enterprise broker. Is that correct, I've not seen a database yet that didn't have the watchdog running.

TIA,

DG.

 

[cj_brandt]

we use proshut to display users and WDOG appears along with the other background processes. This also appears in certain promon screens.


usr pid time of login user id tty Limbo?
5 1395 Wed Jun 18 02:36:17 2014 APW /dev/pts/40 no
6 1399 Wed Jun 18 02:36:17 2014 APW /dev/pts/40 no
7 1404 Wed Jun 18 02:36:17 2014 BIW /dev/pts/40 no
8 1408 Wed Jun 18 02:36:17 2014 AIW /dev/pts/40 no
9 1414 Wed Jun 18 02:36:17 2014 WDOG /dev/pts/40 no

 

[TheMadDBA]

You should always see a watchdog (mad dog) process... No such thing as an internal watchdog process

ps -ef | grep watchdog

 

[Rob Fitzpatrick]

Talking to the chap I inherited it from and he was saying that it won't be seen because it's using the internal watchdog that starts up with the enterprise broker.

He may have been referring to this:
"What does the Progress Watchdog do?"
http://knowledgebase.progress.com/articles/Article/P11456/p
"If you do not run the PROWDOG (Progress Watchdog startup script) as a separate process, the BROKER handles all the Watchdog functions."

You should always start a watchdog for your DBs. You can start one manually while the DB is running with the prowdog command.

 

[danishgambit]

cheers guys. I'll get a watchdog started up explicitly.