Are you the developer of the service? Why not add the wait or retry in
the service code?

--Tigran

On Tue, Apr 13, 2010 at 1:14 PM, Bonner, John <[email protected]> wrote:
> Hello Admins,
>
> I know this may be a simple questions for you guys but I'm a developer so my 
> knowledge is not as robust.
>
> Our web server has a service that relies on communication with SQL server. If 
> it doesn't see the SQL box Sitescope alarms as the service is not started. 
> Now this is fine and dandy except during maintenance windows when the servers 
> get rebooted and the web server comes up before the SQL box does. I know I 
> could have Sitescope attempt to start the service but I was wanting to be 
> more proactive and have Sitescope be the backup. So I was hoping there might 
> be a configuration / dependancy I could specify on that service to not 
> ATTEMPT it's first start until a check verifies SQL is up. Since I know this 
> is not a new problem I figured there must be a tried and true method for 
> handling this scenario?
>
> Thank You Very Much
> JB
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