Free Windows Service Monitoring Tool

Free Windows Service Monitor – Features

ManageEngine Free Windows Service Monitoring tool is a real time monitoring tool that helps the administrator to monitors the Windows Services of servers from remote location. Tool monitors 3 servers simultaneously.

Key Features of the tool

Using the tool, Administrator can monitor 3 servers simultaneously. Service Monitor, once making connection with server,shows defaults services view and All services view.

Auto detection of important services

Once the tool makes connection with server, tool automatically detects the presence of  following services :

1. Exchange server - Tool moniors services of Exchanges 2003 server, Exchange 2007 server, Exchange 2010 server
2. MSSQL server - Tool monitors services used by Microsoft SQL 2005 Server and MSSQL 2008 server
3. Sharepoint service - The services used by Sharepoint 2007 server and Sharepoint 2010 server are monitored.
4. MYSQL - The services used by MySQL Server.
5. Wmi services - Tools checks the services of Windows Management Instrumentation.(WMI)
6. Telnet service - The services used by telnet server.
7. DHCP - The services used by DHCP server.

Administrator can turn off monitoring certain services by un-checking, in-case, user do not want to monitor the service. This can be done from Settings page.

Custom services

The user can manually add three custom service in addition to the default services present.

Monitoring the manually added services

Tool gives the status of the services in an elegant graphical view.

Monitoring all the service

The important parameters monitored in the all services view are

• Service Name : The name of the service.
• Description : The description of the service.
• Status : The running status of the service.It may be "Running" or "Stopped" or "Start Pending" or "Stop Pending" or "Continue Pending" or "Pause Pending" or "Paused" or Unknown"
• Startup Type : The start mode of the Windows Service.This may be "Boot" or "Auto" or "Manual" or "System" or "Disabled".
• Logon As : The primary security identity that determines the granted access rights and privileges of the local and network resources.

Change the status of the service

Double clicking / Right clicking on any row will open the corresponding service details on separate window. The user can configure start mode(automatic,manual or disabled) and also the status (Start, Stop, Restart) of the particular service.

Delete the server

The tool allow the user to delete the server by clicking the delete button of the corresponding server in the settings page.

Refresh the server

The current status of the services of a particular server can be obtained by clicking the refresh button.The added Windows servers will be refreshed at regular interval(Refresh Interval) which is configurable.

Retaining the settings

The tool automatically saves the connected server information. During the restart of the tool, it automatically connects to the servers and populates the services. The configurations modified in the settings page can be saved by using the Save config button.