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Network monitor as service?

jmendoza over 20 years ago

Originally, we have Solarwinds installed on a dedicated server. We plan to move Solarwinds to a multi-user server and are looking for a way to start Network Monitor as a system service. Is there a way to do this?

Javier Mendoza
ITG-Opersations
National University

0 aLTeReGo over 20 years ago

Sure! Not a problem.... I'm running it now with srvany.exe

support.microsoft.com/default.aspx

I'm sure you could use ServiceMill or any other program like it to do the same thing.
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0 rpereda over 20 years ago

Javier,
Forgive my ignorance on this topic. How is making 'Network Monitor' a service beneficial? Are you simply wanting it to start automatically when you reboot? Just curious.

Thanks,
RP
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0 BakerD over 20 years ago

I use Firedaemon. You can download a free version that will setup and install one service, or for $25 you can use it for unlimited versions.

Works well.

Rpereda

Running it as a service allows it to always collect data. That way if you reboot your server and don't log in and open up Netmon, it is still collecting stats.
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0 BWilke over 20 years ago

When I run it like this the service runs in the backgroud just fine but when I open the application it starts a second instance of the application. Does yours do this as well?

quote:Originally posted by aLTeReGo

Sure! Not a problem.... I'm running it now with srvany.exe

support.microsoft.com/default.aspx

I'm sure you could use ServiceMill or any other program like it to do the same thing.

Bill Wilke

0 Airborne over 19 years ago

This is something I have been thinking about doing as well for my company setup. Just a few questions for those that have set this up:

When the Network Performance Monitor runs as a service, are there any noticable performance issues?

When the software is started with a user to view data, any problems I should look out for in advance?

Fairly stable as a service?

Will the automatic database maintanence function still run?
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0 mapaquette over 16 years ago in reply to aLTeReGo

This doesn't work or there is a unpublished trick. I followed the Microsoft KB article on how to create a user-defined service and it does not work. The service is there, it starts with no errors, but if I log out of the server and initiate an outage I do not get alerted. I only get alerted if the server is logged in. Has anyone else run into this issue?
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