Windows Services Monitoring

Why is Windows Services Monitoring important?

Many software applications that run on Windows NT, 2000 or above run as windows services, running as background processes with no direct user interface and no logged-on user (e.g. as a server). They are typically started automatically and therefore are expected to stay running. If any of these important services should fail, many users and external services are immediately affected and so ensuring that these services are running continuously is a key requirement for most system administrators.

OpManager's Windows Services Monitoring Features

	Agentless Windows Services monitoring using WMI OpManager allows you to monitor windows services either locally or across multiple servers on the network. OpManager uses WMI to monitor Windows services and does not require an agent to be installed on each remote machine.
	Automatic Actions When a monitored service fails, OpManager can perform one of the following actions automatically Restart the failed service Reboot the machine Alert the System Administrator through email or SMS.

Important windows services monitored out-of-the-box

In additon to monitoring system level services like HTTP, LDAP, SMTP etc, OpManager supports monitoring of the following Windows Services by default.

OpManager monitors availability and response-time for the following services

Alerter	FTP	Net Logon
DHCP Server	IAS	Print Spooler
DNS Server	IIS	RPC
Disk Manager	Messenger	Telephony
Event Log	MySQL	Telnet

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If you want to see additional Windows Services monitoring features implemented in OpManager, we would love to hear. Click here to continue