Check if RED5 is running and restart if not

[Smoge]

Some people were asking on UNITY how to check if RED5 is running, and if not, try to restart it.

While checking port 5080 / 1935 port results is also helpful, to see if RED5 is running, but unresponsive... which the script below does not do... the script below does check to see if RED5 is running (locked or not, we don't know), and if not running, it tries to re-start it.

#!/bin/bash

#Path to Ray Server's folder
RAY_SERVER_PATH=/your/path/to/RMS

PID=`ps ax | grep java | grep red5 | gawk 'BEGIN {FS=" "} { print $1 }'`
if [[ $PID > 0 ]] ; then
    echo "Red5 Appears To Be Running..."
    exit 0
fi

#Start RED5
$RAY_SERVER_PATH/red5.sh >/dev/null 2>&1 &
echo "Red5 Restart Attempted..."
exit 1

In general however, it is what people were asking for.

Warm regards,
Smoge

[Smoge]

Updated script.... restarts correctly, and also supports more than one RMS running on a single server (under different user IDs).

#!/bin/bash
# Discussion : http://www.modmysite.com/ray-community-widget-suite/10494-check-if-red5-running-restart-if-not.html
# Support    : support@modmysite.com

# Configure values below

# Username of script owned
USERNAME=SET UNIX USERNAME HERE
# Path to RMS install folder (contains red5.sh)
RAY_SERVER_PATH=/home/$USERNAME/RMS_7.0

# Do not change below this line.

PID=`ps ax | grep $USERNAME | grep java | grep red5 | gawk 'BEGIN {FS=" "} { print $1 }'`
if [[ $PID > 0 ]] ; then
    # If up we don't do or return anything comment out below.
    echo "Red5 Is Up For Username $USERNAME On PID $PID ..."
    exit 0
fi

#Start RED5
cd $RAY_SERVER_PATH
$RAY_SERVER_PATH/red5.sh >/dev/null 2>&1 &
echo "Red5 Appeared To Be Down For $USERNAME ... Restart Attempted..."
exit 1

[patrick81]

Some people were asking on UNITY how to check if RED5 is running, and if not, try to restart it.

While checking port 5080 / 1935 port results is also helpful, to see if RED5 is running, but unresponsive... which the script below does not do... the script below does check to see if RED5 is running (locked or not, we don't know), and if not running, it tries to re-start it.

#!/bin/bash

#Path to Ray Server's folder
RAY_SERVER_PATH=/your/path/to/RMS

PID=`ps ax | grep java | grep red5 | gawk 'BEGIN {FS=" "} { print $1 }'`
if [[ $PID > 0 ]] ; then
    echo "Red5 Appears To Be Running..."
    exit 0
fi

#Start RED5
$RAY_SERVER_PATH/red5.sh >/dev/null 2>&1 &
echo "Red5 Restart Attempted..."
exit 1

In general however, it is what people were asking for.

Warm regards,
Smoge

OH MY GOD! This is excatly what I'm looking for! I'm actually using the other chat script which is FlashComs but still using the same Ray Server (RMS). I notice that RMS gets down once a week randomly. I have to restart it to get it to work again. It gets annoying when I forget and they start complaining. This sounds like a perfect solution!!

Where do I put this script? Do I need to put this in .htacess? My Ray Server path now is /opt/ray_server/RMS_7.0/ Please let me know. I really appreciate it.

Nice Forum by the way!

Patrick

[Smoge]

You run it as a cron job - so it checks every X minutes.

As for your RED5 crashing, usually this is because it needs more RAM allocated to it.

[patrick81]

You run it as a cron job - so it checks every X minutes.

As for your RED5 crashing, usually this is because it needs more RAM allocated to it.

Yeah, I wish that was the reason but as i see on my webmin, i have 11.89 GB of ram and it's using 578.99 MB right now. I usually don't have many chatters in the room. I say the biggest group i've ever got was 15 chatters. I don't think RED5 crashes because of it. I don't know really.

I can try this method. This sounds pretty good idea actually. I'm sorry, i don't quite understand it. I normally create a new scheduled cron job on Webmin. So I do it here....





If this is the right place, what should i put in for Execute cron job and command? What about the time? select "ALL" for each one? Please let me know.

I really appreciate your help!