Alternately you could even use the Services Manager on the server to restart the service on consecutive failures.. There are option for that on the service properties configuration.
If that is not ideal a batch job can also be written to restart a service periodically using the net stop <service name in double quotes> followed by a net start <service name> Joe -----Original Message----- From: Action Request System discussion list(ARSList) [mailto:[email protected]]on Behalf Of Grooms, Frederick W Sent: Wednesday, January 06, 2010 4:33 PM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: ARServer Status monitor Is the ARSystem Portmapper service actually stopped or just not responding? I have used a nice utility called Servers Alive to do Windows server (and Service) monitoring. http://www.woodstone.nu/salive/index.asp Fred -----Original Message----- From: Action Request System discussion list(ARSList) [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Reiser, John J Sent: Wednesday, January 06, 2010 12:10 PM To: [email protected] Subject: ARServer Status monitor Hello Listers, ARServer 7.1 Patch 4 MS SQL Server 2005 Has anyone used server A to watch for outages on server B? Since we do have slow periods overnight the production server has occasionally been knocked offline and panic sets in a 5AM when the day shift comes on. It always just takes a ARSystem Portmapper restart to get things going again. I'd like to set up something with the development server, which seems to be unaffected, to periodically ping the production server and perform X if it gets no response. Like Query a form on production every 30 minutes between Midnight and 5 AM. No reply of a known value will either: (In order of preference) 1. Restart the services on Production and send an email to let everyone know that a restart happened. 2. Email the Admin (me) 3. Email the operations team with instructions on restarting the services. (Operations people don't like to restart things because they get blamed for unrelated breakage.) Thanks, --- John J. Reiser Senior Software Development Analyst Remedy Administrator/Developer Lockheed Martin - MS2 The star that burns twice as bright burns half as long. Pay close attention and be illuminated by its brilliance. - paraphrased by me _______________________________________________________________________________ UNSUBSCRIBE or access ARSlist Archives at www.arslist.org Platinum Sponsor:[email protected] ARSlist: "Where the Answers Are"
