How do you go about setting up monitoring for a non-web frontend process?

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Published on 2010-05-09T23:05:25Z Indexed on 2010/05/09 23:08 UTC
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I have a worker process that is running in a server with no web frontend. what is the best way to set up monitoring fot it? It recently died for 3 days, and i did not know about it

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