What are some best practices, tools sets within the Windows 2003 server that I can utilize to monitor failed application services?
We basically have some 3party software that has a few services that it runs. I also want to be notified if the IIS server goes down as well.
I am not interested in obtaining other software for this. If I have to figure out and script in, I would rather do it that way.
Thanks for your input.
Best Answer
IMHO the best way to do this given the constraints you mention is eventtriggers.exe.
You create a trigger for the event you want to monitor, which then calls a mailer script of some kind.
Look at this excellent article for more details.
and the technet article.