I concur. SCOM would have no problems monitoring Services and alerting/restarting when they fail. It is also very flexible due to the ability to author your own management packs to monitor only those services you are concerned about. Tim
-----Original Message----- From: Michael B. Smith [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, April 08, 2008 10:17 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Monitoring a text file? OpsMgr, of course. How real-time does it need to be? Dumpel and eventcombnt also come to mind. Regards, Michael B. Smith MCSE/Exchange MVP http://TheEssentialExchange.com -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, April 08, 2008 11:08 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Monitoring a text file? Greetings! We're an IBM shop (DB2, Lotus, and some application severs which rely on apache products including tomcat). We occasionally have services quietly quit working. Although specific application logs may have event entries, they tend to not make it to the MS system event logs. FWIW, we have ServersAlive for monitoring some of these services. Although the services break, they still seem to respond to the ServersAlive checks. Anyone know of some additional monitoring system which can scan text files and "generate an event" when specific text strings are found by it? Thanks! -------------------------------------- Richard McClary, Systems Administrator ASPCA Knowledge Management 1717 S Philo Rd, Ste 36, Urbana, IL 61802 217-337-9761 http://www.aspca.org ~ Upgrade to Next Generation Antispam/Antivirus with Ninja! ~ ~ <http://www.sunbelt-software.com/SunbeltMessagingNinja.cfm> ~ ~ Upgrade to Next Generation Antispam/Antivirus with Ninja! ~ ~ <http://www.sunbelt-software.com/SunbeltMessagingNinja.cfm> ~ ~ Upgrade to Next Generation Antispam/Antivirus with Ninja! ~ ~ <http://www.sunbelt-software.com/SunbeltMessagingNinja.cfm> ~
