Sorry if i did not make myself clear. let me try again. 1. I have a series of servers running windows server 2003. 2 on each server there is an application running that communicates with remote devices using email. 3. this application is made up from a series of modules that also extract data from a local MSDE db. 4. this application pulls emails from remote devices, interrogates a the DB, then passes on an XML message to a central server. 5. I am intercepting these XML messages to insert additional data that I extract from the DB, and then forward on to another application. Call this my local app.
The problem that I have is that the original application occasionally hangs, causing the DB to stop. I have ASR routines in place to re-boot the server when this happens. I can detect when the db is up and not responding, however, if the DB does not start at all, my local application hangs. I need to find a way to determine if the DB has started, that's all. if any of you have any insight into how I can detect that the DB has started as is running, that would be very useful. any contributions, most gratefully received. kind regards bill -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
