Services Monitor
Posted on April 23rd, 2008 in Business
Current Release: 1.0.3.1
Product Information:
Once you have this program installed, it is as simple as selecting a computer and choosing the services to monitor. Once this is done, anytime your services are no longer running, you get an email.
Services Monitor is the answer to this problem and it does an excellent job. It also comes with a special license permitting you to install the application on two machines. The purpose of the second installation is to monitor the first. This way, if the Services Monitor application service will to stop unexpectedly, you will know right away. This is the built-in self checking system and it works wonderfully.
Features:
- Monitor unlimited number of local and remote services
- Modify interval settings
- Multiple SMTP server support to ensure email is received
- Create custom subject
- Custom logging (basic or verbose)
Please find the README below.
ChangeLog located at the bottom of the page
README
**** MONITORING STRATEGY ****
Services Monitor includes a license which permits you to install the application on two machines within the same network. The reason for this is as follows:
One license should be used on a machine which will be the primary monitoring machine. This machine is where the application will be administered and run so that it monitors services on all other servers in the network.
The second license should be used to install Services Monitor on a second machine. The sole purpose of this second installtion is to monitor the primary installation. So, the only service that is recommended that this second installation monitors is the “Service Monitor” service on the primary machine. This way you will know if the Services Monitor service on the primary machine faults.
*~*~* IMPORTANT *~*~*
The “Services Monitor” service that you have running on each installation MUST BE RUNNING AS A NETWORK ADMINISTRATIVE ACCOUNT if you are monitoring services on remote machines. If you run this service as LocalSystem it will ONLY be able to monitor local services.
**** INSTALLATION ****
Download ServicesMonitor.zip
Unzip
Create a folder for the application files
Example:
C:\Program Files\ServicesMonitor
Copy the files to this folder.
For Windows Vista computers, the Run box may or may not be on the start menu. If not, please enter the same commands in the quick search box.
Click Start, goto Run. Clear any text in the box. Drag ServicesMonitor.Service.exe to the Run text box. At the very end, put a space and then /install.
Example:
“C:\Program Files\ServiceMonitor\ServicesMonitor.Service.exe” /install
Run ServicesMonitor.Console before starting the service. If you start the service before running ServicesMonitor.Console, you will find an error in the log and you will need to restart the Services Monitor service after running ServicesMonitor.Console.
Now, Start the service. Click Start, goto Run, enter
net start “Services Monitor”
Be sure to use the quotes.
If you set the SMTP server to an internal SMTP mail server, please ensure that the SMTP server will allow relaying from the two service monitoring installation IP addresses.
**** UNINSTALLATION ****
Click Start, goto Run. Clear any text in the box. Drag ServicesMonitor.Service.exe to the Run text box. At the very end, put a space and then /uninstall.
Example:
“C:\Program Files\ServiceMonitor\ServicesMonitor.Service.exe” /uninstall
**** COPYRIGHT ****
Copyright 2008 Computer Service Dude. All Rights Reserved. http://www.computerservicedude.com
Changelog
| Version | Date | Changes |
| 1.0.3 | 2008/04/22 | Updates and Enhancements:
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| 1.0.1 | 2008/04/04 | Initial Release |
