Pat, I use a variety of service monitoring tools, mainly for redundancy more than anything else. The monitoring service in Win2k is reasonably good - not particulary configurable but it seems to do the job. For our web servers I also use Service+ which extends the built-in monitoring system. However, sometimes neither of these systems responds to certain 'hangs' so we use ServersAlive on each machine as safety measure. We get service hangs (mainly in IIS) and todate we've not had any serious problems. Our biggest issue is when disk become heavily defragmented which can causee some service not to retart correclty wityhout a reboot (lessons to be learnt here). We monitor every 30secs with the built-in and 60 secs with ServersAlive on key services.
ServersAlive - http://www.woodstone.nu/salive/ Service+ - http://www.activeplus.com/us/products/sp/default.asp David -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Pat Hastings Sent: 20 November 2003 16:00 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [IMail Forum] Auto retarting of services I have heard enough on the list not to want to use the monitor service to monitor and restart the Imail services if fall over. Until I can get proper service monitoring sorted out with my hosting company, however, I don't want to be left in the position of the SMTP service failing at midnight and being not being restarted till I get in the morning or even worse all weekend. So has any body had any experience using the restart mechanisms built into win2k to restart a service when it falls over. It seems to do exactly the same thing as the monitor service but at a lower level. Anyone have any comments? Regards, Pat Hastings To Unsubscribe: http://www.ipswitch.com/support/mailing-lists.html List Archive: http://www.mail-archive.com/imail_forum%40list.ipswitch.com/ Knowledge Base/FAQ: http://www.ipswitch.com/support/IMail/ To Unsubscribe: http://www.ipswitch.com/support/mailing-lists.html List Archive: http://www.mail-archive.com/imail_forum%40list.ipswitch.com/ Knowledge Base/FAQ: http://www.ipswitch.com/support/IMail/
