Creating a Monitor that checks Windows Services?

Here are a few related posts. I think the best practice solution would be to write a web page which checks the status of the service on the local server and then responds with a specific string indicating success or failure. You could then configure an HTTP monitor which polls that web page.

 

 

Monitoring a windows service

 

http://devcentral.f5.com/Default.aspx?tabid=53&forumid=32&tpage=1&view=topic&postid=23312

 

 

Monitoring a Microsoft Windows Service

 

http://devcentral.f5.com/Default.aspx?tabid=53&forumid=32&tpage=1&view=topic&postid=32382

 

 

Aaron

Yes, you can use wmic, but you'll need to build the executable and copy it over to the LTM. Details here: http://links.f5.com/gqVlUe Click Here