Service Monitoring

A server exists to provide services, and if those services stop working correctly, problems ensue.

ServerAssist goes beyond the service checking provided as part of the operating system by providing active and passive monitoring capabilities.

ServerAssist checks key services to ensure that they are running, and responds if they fail. Once per minute, all monitored services are individually checked, and if one of them is found to be not running, it can be

restarted automatically. If the service does not restart cleanly, optionally the machine can be automatically rebooted in order to resolve the problem.

Note that ServerAssist will not monitor services until all automatically started services are running, to allow the system to reach a "steady state" before monitoring begins.

This allows ServerAssist to monitor services that may take some time to start, such as those for SQL Server or Exchange Server, without the need to manually define complex service start-up dependency rules.