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Overview

This article describes how to create a single Action Profile that can start various Windows Services when up.time observes that a Windows Service has Stopped.    

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Background

Alerts and Actions can be triggered in up.time when an Element changes state.  This is discussed in the up.time Administrator’s Guide here: Alerts and Actions .  Several actions are available out-of-the-box: Log to File, Recovery Script, Windows Service and SNMP trap. 

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  • Complete the remainder of the Service Monitor making sure the Windows Service - Service Name is also the Display Name.
  • Raise a Critical Alert when the Service Status is Stopped.
  • Your Service Monitor should look something like the image that follows.

 

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Create Recovery Script

We are going to leverage a Recovery Script in an Action Profile to Start the Windows Service.  This will be a very simple script.  We are going to leverage two key components built into up.time:

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