Update status as heartbeat in external database.

[Neelesh Pateriya]

Hi,

I am planning update status of process in an external database. I am working on config file that looks like 

check process crond with pidfile /var/run/crond.pid

    if  does not exist then exec "/bin/bash -c '/etc/init.d/cron restart; update_external_db.sh restarting' " ELSE IF SUCCEEDED then exec "/bin/bash -c 'update_external_db.sh restarted'"

    if uptime > 1 minutes then   exec "/bin/bash -c 'update_external_db.sh running' "  

It seems to be working fine. 

   If process stopped and not running     --> Status is updated to restarting. 

   Once process restarted successfully  --> Status is updated to restarted. 

   If process is up                                  --> Periadically status is updated to running.

This works fine. But only issue is because of uptime > 1 minutes check, status of process always remain as " Uptime failed" 

Is there any alternative approach so that we can periodically update status and status of process is also running?

Thanks,

NP