#!/usr/bin/perl -w

use strict;
use MIME::Lite;

# monitor.pl - a program for monitoring critical processes on a Unix s
+erver
# Copyright 2004, Tex Thompson <tex@biosysadmin.com>

my $emergency_email = 'contact@mail.com';
my $time_to_sleep   = 60;
my %vital_processes = (
   'httpd'           => '/usr/local/apache/bin/apachectl start',
   'pop-before-smtp' => '/etc/init.d/pop-before-smtp.init start',
   'postfix'         => '/etc/init.d/postfix start',
   'mysql'           => '/etc/init.d/mysql start',
   'ssh'             => '/etc/init.d/sshd start',
   'syslog'          => '/etc/init.d/syslog start'
);


while (1) {
   my @process_listing = `ps ax`;
   foreach my $process ( keys %vital_processes ) {
      my @running = grep /$process/, @process_listing;
      my $num_processes = scalar @running;

      if ( $num_processes == 0 ) {
         # try to fix the problem
         my $time = localtime();
         print "Process $process not found at $time!\n";
         print "Executing command ",$vital_processes{ $process },"\n";
         my $command = $vital_processes{ $process };
         my $output  = `$command`;

         # send a notification e-mail
         my $data = "$process not running at $time!\n";
         $data   .= "Tried to restart with command\n$command\n";
         $data   .= "Output:\n$output\n";

         my $msg = MIME::Lite->build(
            From => 'root@biosysadmin.com',
            To   => $emergency_email,
            Subject => "Emergency: $process down",
            Type => 'TEXT',
            Data => $data
         );
         $msg->send;
      }
   }
   sleep( $time_to_sleep );
}
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