Stopping the Monitor

The Monitor_stop method uses pmfadm -q to see if the probe is running, and if so, uses pmfadm -s to stop it. If the probe is already stopped, the method exits successfully anyway, which guarantees the idempotency of the method.

# See if the monitor is running, and if so, kill it. 
if pmfadm -q $PMF_TAG; then 
   pmfadm -s $PMF_TAG KILL
   if [ $? -ne 0 ]; then 
         logger -p ${SYSLOG_FACILITY}.err \
            -t [$SYSLOG_TAG] \
            "${ARGV0} Could not stop monitor for resource " \
            $RESOURCE_NAME
           exit 1
   else
         # could successfully stop the monitor. Log a message.
         logger -p ${SYSLOG_FACILITY}.err \
            -t [$SYSLOG_TAG] \
            "${ARGV0} Monitor for resource " $RESOURCE_NAME \
            " successfully stopped"
   fi
fi
exit 0

Be certain to use the KILL signal with pmfadm to stop the probe and not a maskable signal such as TERM. Otherwise the Monitor_stop method can hang indefinitely and eventually time out. The reason for this problem is that the PROBE method calls scha_control when it is necessary to restart or fail over the data service. When scha_control calls Monitor_stop as part of the process of bringing the data service offline, if Monitor_stop uses a maskable signal, it hangs waiting for scha_control to complete and scha_control hangs waiting for Monitor_stop to complete.