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Service State Controller
The IPSentry Service State Control add-in is an alerting add-in component
which allows you to control services on local and remote computers. This
add-in component is used to Start, Stop, and Restart services as a
pro-active recovery measure based on the result of a monitored entry.
For example, you can configure IPSentry to monitor a service such as W3SVC
if you are so inclined. If this service is detected in a state other than
Running when monitoring using the basic NT Service Monitoring functionality
of IPSentry, you can configure the Service State Controller as an alert
action and attempt to Start the service automatically thereby avoiding human
interaction.
This add-in can be used in conjunction with any monitoring entry - not just
service monitoring. For example, you may have a custom network application
that is tested by a simple TCP connection. If the connection cannot be
established, you may need to restart various services on the remote system
even if the service show that they are running. This add-in can be used in
such a case by specifying either Restart options on a set of system
services.
Also important is the fact that you can configure a set of services to be
started in a specific order thus allowing you to start or restart dependency
services as may be required.
The Service State controller add-in is designed to be used as an alerting
mechanism for starting, stopping, or restarting windows system services on
local an remote systems.
There are many failure scenarios that require nothing more than a restart of
a system service to correct the issue and this add-in fits that bill. We
actually use it extensively in our production environment to make sure that
our backup services are all running. A common and well known problem with
some backup systems is that when the service fails - you don't get a backup
and you don't find out about it until the backup software notifies you of
some ambiguous error caused the backup to fail. We use the IPSentry service
monitor to check the service state and if they don't report as running, we
use this add-in to stop them in order and start them in order for a clean
service startup.
Evaluate this feature in the fully functional
download.
See
more details in our help
documentation.
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