Attending To An Unresponsive Server; Cms Watchdog Process - Netscape MANAGEMENT SYSTEM 4.5 Installation And Setup Manual

In the right pane, check the Server Status field.
3.
If the selected instance of Certificate Management System is running, the status
will be Started. Otherwise it will be Stopped or Unknown.

Attending to an Unresponsive Server

If an error causes Certificate Management System to become unresponsive, and all
attempts to stop it from Netscape Console fail, it may be necessary to kill the server
processes manually. For this purpose, Certificate Management System provides a
command-line tool
Guide.

CMS Watchdog Process

The CMS watchdog is a native bootstrapping program that provides specific native
functions. It works with Certificate Management System to enable it to start up
using a single password—instead of multiple passwords—called the single sign-on
password. In addition, it manages the start-up, stop, and restart states of Certificate
Management System.
The watchdog process (identified as
operations:
• Starts Certificate Management System and the Virtual Java Machine, or Java
VM—the watchdog allows you to start Certificate Management System by
using a single password instead of the multiple passwords that would
otherwise be required. For details, see "Required Start-up Information" on
page 312. (During CMS installation the watchdog stores all the passwords
required by the server for starting up in a password cache, which is explained
in "Password Cache" on page 326.)
• Stops Certificate Management System.
• Restarts Certificate Management System (after configuration changes).
• Detects Certificate Management System crashes and restarts the server—the
watchdog monitors Certificate Management System and the Java VM,
restarting the server in the case of a failure.
• In the Unix version of Certificate Management System, the watchdog records
the server process ID (
, which is explained in CMS Command-Line Tools
killproc
cms_watchdog
) and sets the user ID (
pid
Attending to an Unresponsive Server
) implements the following
) of the process.
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