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Cache Channel Service - Response to Health Monitoring?

I am wondering what would be the best way to track the Tridion Caching Channel Service (CCS) for health checks.

What do we have today?

  • Windows service monitoring (it works as a Windows service)
  • Telnet port 1099 check (TCP)

We can catch most of the crashes using the above two checks, but several times CCS is still not responsible for the invalidation of the cache or cache hits, as well as errors in the logs (unsuccessful, not sure).

Are there other ways to test health?

Usually for http we can ping the URL and get status codes 200 or 500, etc. Are there any similar methods for CCS, so we can get a functional health status. It is based on RMI, so it’s not sure that it has similar status codes like http.

Any pointers would be appreciated.

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I do not think CCS can broadcast a health signal. The only alternative I see is to switch from CCS to JMS. For example, Apache ActiveMQ can be tracked as described in this post: ActiveMQ JMS ping .

Other advantages of JMS over CCS:

  • It works on http, so it’s a little more “firewall”
  • It can be increased with load balancing.
  • "", JMS //dev, live/staging ..
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