Restarting a Rewriter Proxy

You can configure to restart Rewriter proxy whenever the proxy is killed accidentally. You can schedule a watchdog process to monitor and restart it if this happens.

You can also restart a Rewriter proxy manually.

To Restart a Rewriter Proxy

1. In a terminal window, connect as root and do one of the following:

   • Start the watchdog process:

     psadmin sra-watchdog -u uid -f password-filename -t instance-type on

     Enter rwproxy in place of the instance-type. For more information on this command, see the Sun Java Portal Server Command Line Reference Guide.

     This creates an entry in the crontab utility and the watchdog process is now active. The watchdog monitors the Rewriter Proxy port and brings up the proxy if it goes down.

   • Start a Rewriter Proxy manually:

     start-sra-instance -u uid -f password-filename -N sra-instance-name -t instance-type

     Enter rwproxy in place of the instance-type. This the profile name corresponding to the required Rewritter Proxy instance. For more information on this command, see the Sun Java Portal Server Command Line Reference Guide.

To Configure a Rewriter Proxy Watchdog

You can configure the time interval at which the watchdog monitors the status of the Rewriter proxy. This time interval is set to 60 seconds by default. To do this, edit the following line in the crontab utility:

0-59 * * * * rewriter-proxy-install-root/bin/checkgw /var/opt/SUNWportal/.gw 5 > /dev/null 2>&1