Hi Roberto, First of all: great tip and IMHO a much clearer way to see if a server is up or down. The only thing I am still struggling with is the alignment of the [UP] and [DOWN] text for the SAS Web App servers. In my installation, SASServer1_1, SASServer2_1, SASServer12_1 and SASServer13_1 are started. In the sas.servers.mid script the 'name' of the SAS Web App server is indicated with a parameter being $SASWEBAPPINSTANCE Since the text of the latter two is one longer than the first two allignment goes wrong. Do you have a suggenstion how this could be fixed? Kind regards, --Resa