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ChkServd TCP check failure threshold

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The number of times a ChkServd TCP check must fail before notification is sent and the service is restarted. On heavily loaded systems these types of service checks fail occasionally, producing erroneous indications that services are down.

A value of 3 or higher is recommended for most systems.

How to include the crond service to chkservd

First we need to create a crond file under the chkservd.d directory where all the services files are placed:

Add the following line to the file:

Now we need to edit the chkservd configuration file and enable the crond service for monitoring

add the following line at the end of the file

Restart the chkservd service for the new changes to take affect:

Stop the service manually and watch chkservd logs to verify auto-restart.

You should notice that the crond service is restarted automatically.

chkservd service monitor

chkservd is a service running on Cpanel servers. chkservd service monitors other service, if any of the service that is monitored by chkservd is found down, chkservd will restart the service and notify server admin

You can start, stop chkservd with following commands

cPanel offers ‘chkservd’, a monitoring daemon that monitors the services on the server and restart them if found offline.