Notification when services are down

[Guest]

Is there a way to configure Windows Server 2000 to send a notification when a
specified service stops working? In particular we are thinking of Exchange
services and would like to know immediately when they go down and not have to
wait for users to complain.

 

[3c273]

On the Recovery tab for the service, you can configure it to restart on the
first failure and to run a file on the second failure. Just setup a batch
file that uses "net send' to alert you.
Louis

 

[Guest]

A slightly more robust solution might be to create a VBScript to be run when
the service fails. The VBScript can be configured to send an email to alert
help desk personnel when services fail and you don't have to have the
'alerter' and 'messenger' services running on your network (they present
security risks).

 

[3c273]

Agreed, but I would use Python www.python.org.
Louis