Services Monitor has been updated!

Take advantage of the new features in this release. If you are already a customer, download the latest version today. If not, consider purchasing this product!

New Features:

• Allow custom email subject
• If status of service is unknown, send an email and inform user to verify that the service account is a network administrative account
• Allow multiple SMTP servers
• Service sorting
• Modified editability of grid
• Allow for verbose or basic monitoring
• Allow setting and auto-truncate logs (default: 30 days)

Our customers love this product. It’s so simple and so effective. It can literally save your job!

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Zachary M. Morvik

Beta testing is complete and I am now releasing my Service Monitor software.

Since you are a reader of my blog, I want to offer you a special introductory price.  Here are the details:

1. Read about this software here on the blog
2. Don’t order using the order link on the right, your price is only $35 until the end of Monday. A 65% discount!
3. You can send the $35 to PayPal@ComputerServiceDude.com
4. This offer expires at Midnight at the end of Monday.
5. As it is a weekend, please allow 24 hours to receive the download link.

Thank you for your support.  If you were a beta tester, you are welcome to simply continue using the beta version of Services Monitor or you can download the latest version.  Beta testers do not need to pay to retain a license to use Services Monitor.

Zachary M. Morvik

I have updated the service monitor tool based on the feedback of a few customers. Customers thus far love the product and can’t believe they ran their servers without it.

Knowing when services are no longer available/responding is powerful knowledge. You’re customers will be impressed when you can call them and tell them that you are aware of a problem before they were even aware of it.

Zachary M. Morvik

I can’t tell you how often I used to get burned by a Windows service unexpectedly terminating and the wrath that can follow. What I have searched for on many occasions is a very simple application that would monitor selected services on a specified interval. If any of the monitored services are not running, I want an email.

I don’t just want the service to restart. That’s little more than a bandaid. Why did that service stop? There was a reason and that reason should not be ignored. I want to know when the service stops.

Since I couldn’t find an application like the one I have described, I wrote one. It is simplistic which is exactly what I wanted. It does exactly what it needs to do and it does so flawlessly.

I’ll be releasing this application here on the blog soon. If you would like to be notified when this application becomes available, just signup for annoucements up there at the top right.

Take care,

Zachary M. Morvik

I always reward my readers and list subscribers by offering any new products and services with a special.  List subscribers receive an email notifying them of these specials so they do not miss the great prices.  When the special is over, however, it is over.  No exceptions.

I’m offering readers of this blog 75% off for the next 36 hours (until noon on Wednesday EST) on Domeas, the Domain Renewal Monitoring software.

Using this software, you will never again have a client domain, or your own, expire without your knowledge.  You won’t believe how impressed clients are when you contact them and let them know, ahead of time, that they have a domain expiring.  If they have ever been through that ordeal, they really appreciate that you are looking out for them.

The price is normally $20 but during this special, you can get it for only $5.

Here is the URL to place your order:

http://www.Domeas.com

-Zachary M. Morvik

Has your domain or one of your clients’ domains ever expired without you realizing it? I have personally made this mistake, as have most, and I promised both my clients and myself that it would never happen again. This causes a major and embarrassing problem regardless of how quickly you correct the issue. It never should have happened in the first place.

I have created a tool called Domain Expiration Guard to ensure that you are never faced with this situation again. This tool accepts a TXT file list of domains, one per line, and will query a WHOIS database for every domain to find the expiration date. It will also make it very clear which domains will be expiring within the next 90 days.

Want to see a screenshot?

I’ll be offering this one cheap at only $20

-Zachary M. Morvik

I have decided to release to the public a simple tool that is very long overdue in this market. The tool is NTFS Security Guard. Let me give you some background of the problem for the reason why this tool was created. As a computer service consultant, you will definitely find that certain folders require restricted NTFS security permissions. The problem is if you didn’t set these permissions, or even if you did, you have no idea if the permissions ever change. Is that folder still secure? Do you even know which folders are secured?

This tool is to be installed on the server where you then tell it the required information, such as SMTP server info as well as which folders to monitor. Then if the NTFS permissions are changed on any folder or file, you are immediately sent an email so that you can go check on this folder or file to see what happened. Most importantly, you can correct the changes if they are no longer correct.

Here is a screenshot of a version I am tweaking to be available to the public.

I have a few basic templates laying around and even a few tools that I have written that may be of interest to some.

Are these items that you would be interested in? Let me know!

-Zachary M. Morvik