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Bruce_Berger's avatar
Bruce_Berger
11 years ago

Auto restart option for failed Windows services

I know that this is a monitoring tool and not management, however - When LoMo detects a stopped or failed Windows service it would be good if it attempted to restart. Our other monitoring tool does...
Steve_Francis's avatar
Steve_Francis
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11 years ago

Why would you prefer the monitoring system do this? Our view has been that you can set the Windows services to auto-restart, and set this up using group policies. It seems this is a better place for this kind of Windows response than in the monitoring - instead just rely on the monitoring to inform you when this management system fails. Is there a use case where the monitoring responding would be better?