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I have the following powershell script to monitor all automatic services on a server. It has exclusions for specific services and some that contain a part of a name. This script runs as expected if run directly on the server to be monitored. However if creating the component monitor in SAM it will always return the result…
Hi everyone, Ever since I started working with SAM I have been looking for a way to auto-discover the applications installed on Windows servers. Has anyone come up with a solution for this? I created a the custom PowerShell script bellow that can return up to 10 services and their status ( up or down). Can you guys take a…
Hey! I don't know if it's possible but we have a windows server that has a process that has trouble sometimes. Our F5 has a health monitor, it fails that monitor. The windows service is still up and running when that health check fails. So I'm trying to restart that Windows service if that monitor fails on the F5. I see…
Hi All, Not sure if anyone of you has encountered such a request before. Basically, i got a bunch of workstations that needs to have a particular service but the issue is that the service name is not uniform. What I mean by not uniform is that the same name would have the machine name behind. E.g - abc-agent-computer01 ,…
I'm going to throw out the new to SolarWinds SAM card again. So I'm going to setup monitoring of numerous windows services. Do people create an application monitor template per server or per service? So we have numerous servers with numerous different services running on them. When I go to the Component Monitor Wizard >…
Hi, i know how to monitor and alert on 2 windows services across 2 servers, then I can start or stop a service on one of the servers depending on what the scenario is. But how do i get it to start one service on one server wait a poll then if it hasnt manged to start it, start the service on the other box. executing an…
Hello fellow Thwack Heads. I am hoping someone could help me here. I have been tasked with seeing if there is a way to monitor if a directory folder is accessible or not. I have looked over Thwack for suggestions and have found some but nothing that is clean and will give me what I actually need. I am hoping someone has an…
Hello, I have six applications on six nodes monitoring some windows services. If somehow SolarWinds did not restart a service that was down. I want Solarwinds to send an email/page. Thanks for your help.
Group, Hello and a Happy Thursday to you all! I have a three nodes that run a Windows Service. By default, the service is only up on one node at a time. I need to create an alert when the service is down on all three nodes. Anyone know how to do that? Thank you, Jason
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