OPMN event-scripts

A nifty little feature of OPMN is the ability it has to launch scripts at certain points in its management of processes -- pre-start, pre-stop and post-crash -- giving you the ability to perform any sort of management tasks that may be needed when these events are occuring

The scripts are configured per process-type, and no suprises here, I've looked at it with respect to OC4J.

Here's how you configure it in an opmn.xml file:

  <process-type id="home" module-id="OC4J" status="enabled">
    <module-data>
       <category id="start-parameters">
          <data id="java-options" value="-Xrs ..."/>
       </category>
       <category id="stop-parameters">
          <data id="java-options" value="..."/>
       </category>
    </module-data>
     <event-scripts>
        <pre-start path="c:\\temp\\pre-start.bat"/>
        <pre-stop path="c:\\temp\\pre-stop.bat"/>
     </event-scripts>
     <start timeout="600" retry="2"/>
    <stop timeout="120"/>
    <restart timeout="720" retry="2"/>
    <port id="default-web-site" range="80-100" protocol="http"/>
    <port id="rmi" range="12401-12500"/>
    <port id="rmis" range="12701-12800"/>
    <port id="jms" range="12601-12700"/>
    <process-set id="default_group" numprocs="1"/>
 </process-type>

The scripts are passed a set of arguments that provide information about the current environment such as the timestamp, the OC4J instance name and group, etc.

This is covered in more detail in Chapter 3 of the OPMN Administrators Guide.