Automated Process Reaper for Unix Systems Satan does just one thing, and one thing only; kill processes. Satan was designed to work with Solaris’ SMF self-healing properties. Let Satan kill while SMF revive. The Satan name is a play off of the God Monitor http://god.rubyforge.org/ The reason Satan was developed was because God overlaps too much in functionality with SMF so it is not practical to run on Solaris. Features - No dependencies aside from Ruby - Email notification on reaped processes - Easy to use DSL to define reaping rules - HTTP checks to reap based on non-200 response code INSTALLATION - Install satan on your run path: /opt/bin;/opt/sfw/bin;/usr/bin - Edit satan.smf to your liking and import: svccfg import satan.smf HOW TO USE - /opt/bin/satan ~/satan.cfg OR - via SMF, see installation block. The configuration is all done in Ruby, clean and simple. Satan.watch do |s| s.name = "jvm instances" # name of job s.user = "webservd" # under what user s.group = "webservd" # under what group s.deamon = "java" # deamon binary name to grep for s.args = nil # globally look for specific arguments, optional s.debug = true # if to write out debug information s.safe_mode = false # If in safe mode, satan will not kill ;-( s.interval = 10.seconds # interval to run at to collect statistics s.sleep_after_kill = 1.minute # sleep after killing, satan is tired! s.contact = "victori@fabulously40.com" # admin contact, optional if you want email alerts s.kill_if do |process| process.condition(:cpu) do |cpu| # on cpu condition cpu.name = "50% CPU limit" # name for job cpu.args = "jetty" # make sure this is a jetty process, optional cpu.above = 48.percent # if above certain percentage cpu.times = 5 # how many times we can hit this condition before killing end process.condition(:memory) do |memory| # on memory condition memory.name = "850MB limit" # name for job memory.args = "jetty" # make sure this is a jetty process, optional memory.above = 850.megabytes # limit for memory use memory.times = 5 # how many times we can hit this condition before killing end # ActiveMQ tends to die on us under heavy load so we need the power of satan! process.condition(:http) do |http| # on http condition http.name = "HTTP ActiveMQ Check" # name for job http.args = "8161" # look for specific app arguments # to associate app to URI http.uri = "http://localhost:8161/admin/queues.jsp" # the URI http.times = 5 # how many times before the kill end end end