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jondyke_46152's avatar
jondyke_46152
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Apr 23, 2008

Monitoring a windows service

Sorry if this is a 'numpty' question that had been answered before (I have had a quick search but di dnot find anything) but is there a way of getting LTM to monitor if a specific Windows Service is r...
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Deb_Allen_18's avatar
Deb_Allen_18
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May 14, 2008
Building on tammelaj's suggestion, you could create an .asp page that runs the appropriate system commands to verify the service in question. For example, this page: (Click here) details the steps you'd want to take to check & verify Oracle windows services.

 

 

While you might possibly be able to craft an external monitor to perform the same operations, it's much more efficient for both systems to perform the checks locally then report the results to the calling system. And it will come in handy for other remote monitoring applications as tammelaj also mentions.

 

 

/deb