I assumed that you would run under local system with desktop interraction in addition to the below.
-----Original Message----- From: Servers Alive Discussion List [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Leone, Michael Sent: 27 March 2007 21:11 To: Servers Alive Discussion List Subject: RE: [SA-list] Running Servers Alive as a Service -> 1. The easiest way would be create a domain admin account as domain -> admins is always added to local administrators group on machines -> joined to the domain although you might get away with server -> operators group. -> 2. Give it a real nasty keyboard mashing style password 3. Enable -> encryption in the setup to store the credentials encrytped else -> eanyone with read access to the config can decode the base 64 version -> on the web. -> 4. Use the Changes wizard to set all your checks with the same -> credentials globally. That's what we were doing, and what doesn't work, unfortunately. As Dirk pointed out, the interface does *not* start: "* run the servie as a domain account -> interface will NOT be loaded and can't be called (as you don't have desktop interaction)" So the domain account we want to use (which is a domain admin) can't be used to run the service, since the interface won't start. 9well, it can be used, but SA won't start running checks unless someone clicks on "Start", which defeats the purpose of running it as a service ... :-)). I guess the domain account *can* be used as credentials for all checks. But we'll need to run SA as a local system account, rather than a domain account. (Marty and I work together) -> -> Regards -> -> Mark Perry -> -> -> -----Original Message----- -> From: Servers Alive Discussion List [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On -> Behalf Of [EMAIL PROTECTED] -> Sent: 26 March 2007 21:31 -> To: Servers Alive Discussion List -> Subject: [SA-list] Running Servers Alive as a Service -> -> Can someone point me to a link that describes how to run Servers -> Alive as a service? I've been tinkering with this a bit today and -> not making much progress. -> -> I've tried setting the service up to start automatically using the -> local system account and enabling the service to interact with the -> desktop. -> That sort of worked. -> Unfortunatly, lots of remote checks failed since the local system -> account on this machine can't check things like disk space on other -> machines. I know I could include authentication information on each -> check but that is going to be a pain in the neck to setup. -> -> I've tried to run the service under a special account that we use to -> run services. While I see the sevice starting in the event viewer, -> Servers Alive never really seems to load up the host file and never -> seems to start running. -> -> Mart -> -> To unsubscribe send a message with UNSUBSCRIBE as subject to -> [email protected] If you use auto-responders (like -> out-of-the-office messages), then make sure that they are not send to -> the list nor to the individual members of the list that send a -> message. Doing this will get you removed from the list. -> -> To unsubscribe send a message with UNSUBSCRIBE as subject to -> [email protected] If you use auto-responders (like -> out-of-the-office messages), then make sure that they are not send to -> the list nor to the individual members of the list that send a -> message. Doing this will get you removed from the list. -> To unsubscribe send a message with UNSUBSCRIBE as subject to [email protected] If you use auto-responders (like out-of-the-office messages), then make sure that they are not send to the list nor to the individual members of the list that send a message. Doing this will get you removed from the list. To unsubscribe send a message with UNSUBSCRIBE as subject to [email protected] If you use auto-responders (like out-of-the-office messages), then make sure that they are not send to the list nor to the individual members of the list that send a message. Doing this will get you removed from the list.
