I am working towards implementing IDM 4 into my environment. I found that on one of my servers, the driver had stopped without my knowledge. So I decided to write a bash script to check the status of the driver, restart it if needed, and email whenever the status of the driver changes.

Create the folder /var/opt/novell/scripts Copy the chkdriver.sh script into the directory, edit the variables as indicated in the script (#edit me comment) and set the permissions so it can be executed.

On line 7, that is a reminder note to add the ip address of your SMTP server to the /etc/mail.rc file so the script can send notifications...

#!/bin/bash

admin="admin.tree"    #edit me
password="secret"   #edit me
dxml_driver="driver-name.context.tree"   #edit me

#add "set smtp=smtp.ip.add.ress" to /etc/mail.rc file so the script can send email

email_to="network.admin@mydomain.com"    #edit me
email_body="/var/opt/novell/scripts/idm_driver_status.msg"    #edit me

dxcmd_output=`/opt/novell/eDirectory/bin/dxcmd -user $admin -password $password -getstate $dxml_driver`
dxml_drvstate=$?
case $dxml_drvstate in
	0) #stopped
		echo -n "Driver state 0 - Stopped"
		email_subj="IDM Driver $dxml_driver has STOPPED"
		echo `! date` " - IDM Driver $dxml_driver status: Stopped...  Attempting to restart driver $dxml_driver" >$email_body
		dxcmd_output=`/opt/novell/eDirectory/bin/dxcmd -user $admin -password $password -start $dxml_driver`
		/bin/mail -s "$email_subj" "$email_to" < $email_body
		;;
	1) #starting
		echo -n "Driver state 1 - Starting"
		email_subj="IDM Driver $dxml_driver is STARTING"
		echo `! date` " - IDM Driver $dxml_driver status: Starting...  Please check the server" >$email_body
		/bin/mail -s "$email_subj" "$email_to" < $email_body
		;;
	2) #running
		if grep -q -i running /var/opt/novell/scripts/idm_driver_status.msg
		then
			echo -n "No Change in Driver state 2 - Running"
			echo ""
		else
			echo -n "Driver state 2 - Running"
			email_subj="IDM Driver $dxml_driver is RUNNING"
			echo `! date` " - IDM Driver $dxml_driver status: Running" >$email_body
			/bin/mail -s "$email_subj" "$email_to" < $email_body
		fi
		;;
	3) #stopping
		echo -n "Driver state 3 - Stopping"
		email_subj="IDM Driver $dxml_driver is STOPPING"
		echo `! date` " - IDM Driver $dxml_driver status: Stopping...  Please check the server" >$email_body
		/bin/mail -s "$email_subj" "$email_to" < $email_body
		;;
esac