Free solution to monitor windows services?

wonder_lander · 7 Apr 2015 at 12:44

I've got a service on my server that sometimes fails to start.

Is there a program that I can use that I can schedule to run every 10 mins that will try and start the service if it's not running? Ideally if it could email me too that would be great!!

UKDTweak · 7 Apr 2015 at 12:50

You could write a batch file to start the service and then setup a scheduled task to run it every ten minutes?

leigh_boy · 7 Apr 2015 at 13:09

you can tell a service to constantly restart any way.
and you can create a task (alert) to email using al the built in tools of windows server.

bledd · 7 Apr 2015 at 13:25

Code:

sc query spooler | findstr /i "STATE" | findstr /i "RUNNING"

This will set the errorlevel to 0 if the Spooler service is running. If it's not running, it will give errorlevel = 1

So after running that command, have it do the following.

Code:

If %errorlevel%==0 goto running

Echo Spooler is not running
net start spooler

(optional)
COMMANDS FOR SENDING EMAIL.  To say it's been restarted
(/optional)


goto end

:running
echo Service is running. goto end

:end

This is a great resource

http://ss64.com/nt/sc.html