Cron Script to monitor the Novell Messenger status and auto-restart if its down

Create a file on the Linux Server /usr/sbin/messenger.sh

Edit the file and type the following in the file
#!/bin/bash

declare -i CNT=0
CNT=`ps -aef | grep -v grep | grep -c "nmma"`
if [ $CNT -eq 0 ]
then
 echo "Restarting Novell Messenger Agent"
 /etc/init.d/novell-nmma start
 echo "Restarted Novell Messenger Agent" `! date` >> /var/opt/novell/messenger/log
 echo "Novell Messenger restarted" | mail -s "Novell Messenger Restarted" username@example.com
else
 echo "Novell Messenger Agent is running" > /dev/null
fi

declare -i CNT1=0
CNT1=`ps -aef | grep -v grep | grep -c "nmaa"`
if [ $CNT1 -eq 0 ]
then
 echo "Restarting Novell Archiving Agent"
 /etc/init.d/novell-nmaa start
 echo "Restarted Novell Archiving Agent" `! date` >> /var/opt/novell/messenger/log
 echo "Novell Archiving Agent restarted" | mail -s "Novell Archiving Agent Restarted" username@example.com
else
 echo "Novell Archiving Agent is running" > /dev/null

Save the file

Type "chmod 777 /usr/sbin/messenger.sh"

Edit /etc/crontab and type the following at the end of the file
* * * * *     root   /usr/sbin/messenger.sh

Now if Messenger Agent or the Archiving Agent goes down, it will brough back up automatically