IpMonitor service heartbeat??

Question

Is there any form of a heartbeat for IpMonitorsrv.exe? I have had the service or servral services on the machine that is hosting ipmonitor freeze due to the AV serveral times.  *cough* McAfee *cough*. I can not remove and installed another AV due to Corp standards. I have a script running on another machine that checks on the service and log files. During low periods of activity the log files are not updated regularly. Does any one have a idea on how to get the service to regularly produce something on the host machine. An file with a timestamp would be ideal but I'll try to hook powershell into anything.  :)

Thanks for you help!!

phalanx130 · Accepted Answer

Chris,

After leaving a post and thinking about the problem I came up with a simple solution. I created an external monitor process that just writes a time stamp to a file in the ipmonitor log folder. The following is the onliner that I used

get-date | set-content "C:\Program Files\SolarWinds\ipMonitor\logs\heartbeat.log"

Unless the powershell script has a problem accessing a log file, ie..some weird file locking problem or the path is bad, it will always exit with a 0 which ipmonitor checks to see that it was successful.

Thanks Chris for the suggestion.