Send Out Email Alert When Checkpointing Fails

Question

We perform a daily checkpoint of K Engines on our Appian 7.8 environment. I would like to know if there is a way to send out a email notification when a checkpoint fails? We use the standard checkpointsuite.sh script for checkpointing. 
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Nick Vigilante · Accepted Answer

It should be possible to create a CRON job or something like it that reads each KDB directory and tries to find any files that begin with "writing_". There are writing_*.kdb files added to that directory, and if for some reason, the checkpoint fails, the writing_*.kdb file will be left in that directory, from what I've researched. I would imagine that you can run some kind of job that scans that folder every so often but if there are writing_*.kdb files in any of those directories for too long, that should be a good indication that the checkpoint failed. You may be able to configure some third-party tool to email you about it after the job finishes.