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I have seen several issues were a DSfW server becomes sluggish or unresponsive.  Logins can take several minutes.  Some times ndsd or another DSfW process crashes.

If a DSfW server running DNS has a DSfW specific process stop or crash a quick stop gap measure is to monitor the DSfW processes and restart them if one or more of the DSfW processes stop.  I created a simple script that will check that a pid exists for each process.  The script is called dsfw_processchk.sh.  While it does not restart DSfW in every condition like if a process continues to run but is not responding or say a process crashes but the pid is never cleaned up, it does work for most situations.  Create a cron job to run the script every hour, 30 minutes, 10 minutes, what ever you desire.  My… Continue reading →