Windows – Looking for a way to monitor / notify when IIS goes down

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Looking for some software / methodology to monitor a Windows 2003 server and (hopefully) send out an e-mail out when the IIS server service stops / IIS goes down.

Thanks.

Best Answer

One option, short of using third party service monitoring tools, is to create a script that will send out an email (or other similar alert) and then configure the service to run that script when the service fails.

  1. Go to the Services control panel
  2. Right-click on World Wide Web Publishing
  3. On the Recovery tab select Run a Program from the various X Failure drop-downs
  4. Enter your script cmdline in the Run program panel boxes.
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